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[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Oct. 3, 2004
Mississippi River
Shelby Co. TN


I left Ensley at noon, after two Peregrines had started a competition as to 
which could keep the most birds in the air at the same time. Saturday morning 
my first visit to Mud Island at dawn produced little in the way of birds but my 
second visit kept me busy counting ducks. Sunday my first revealed nothing 
and my second kept me counting soaring White Pelicans.
The sandbars are just starting to peek out above the waters.

In slightly over an hours vigil, I had nine flights of Pelicans with the high 
number in the largest group a hefty 435+ and total for that location was 
875+. I left there to check out Eagle Lake and found the gates locked, so I 
started scanning the horizon over the river and what I saw at first in the 
distance 
looked like skeins of Snow Geese but in the next hour I counted another 950+ 
White Pelicans heading south. As they got to the south edge of the refuge, each 
group again went into thermals and looked like flashing clouds that would 
appear and disappear as they turned. After a little break I headed south to 
Ensley again where I might have caught a few of those same flights but I did 
not 
add them to the total. Over 1800 Pelicans headed south, no telling what had 
passed that was missed.


Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN


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