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["Robert" <robert543@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mike Todd wrote :
> Thought this would be of interest to many listers
> across the State! A Jabiru has been found a couple
> of hours south of Memphis in Mississippi.
Since you mentioned it on TN-Birds...

My birding partner and I went down today to the Myers' Farm. We saw
Mrs. M. feeding the fish, but never saw the elusive Jabiru. We then spent
the rest of the day visiting more than 35 fish farm ponds. There were
hundreds of Great Egrets, not so many Great Blues, a few Snowys
and Cattle Egrets, and even five juvenile White Ibises ( brownish ).

Our hearts skipped a beat, as we drove near the Malmaison NWR. We
spotted a "kettle" of Wood Storks, circling about the refuge, just one field
over from Highway 7. We stopped and got out and carefully examined
every one of the circling giants. Beautiful, graceful, enormous, but they
were all Wood Storks. No Jabiru. We went into the wildlife park and drove
to the boat ramp, but we did not see where they might have landed.

We never saw any other aggregation of Wood Storks, all day. But had a
wonderful time looking. Thanks for the tip.

Robert Fowler
Memphis TN
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