FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Re: Roseate Spoonbill

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

In recent years I have seen Roseate Spoonbills in TN on 4 occasions. I 
photographed the bird Cosner reports in July 1989. I photographed another 
bird at Lake #9 just inside Kentucky on Sept 14, 1994 and this bird flew into 
TN and was seen over the next few days off and on by many around the 
Phillippy Pits, Lake Co. TN and later farther south on the Mississippi River. 
I photographed another bird in late August 1996 again in Lake Co, near 
Reelfoot. I found up to 3 birds at Cocklebur Lake in Shelby Co. on the TN 
side of the MS/TN line on August 24 of this year in the company of 30-40 Wood 
Storks. These birds were seen by a few other birders over the next few days.

Spoonbills appeared far to the north of Tennessee this year, at least one 
group of 4 birds in either Illinois or Indiana stay for quite a while. These 
birds come north with the Wood Stork migration and most likely, like the Wood 
Storks are out of Mexico. When the storks start streaming up the Texas coast 
in the early summer these pink bird can be seen following along. David Dortch 
just photographed a bird at the pine roost out from the Air Port on Dauphin 
Island in the last few days. Hopefully it will stay to greet us at the fall 
meeting this coming weekend.

They are great birds to watch and I hope the Green Co. bird stays for others 
to enjoy.............

Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.


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