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With some time on my hands early this afternoon, I went to Old Hickory Lake 
in Sumner county, Hendersonville, Tennessee to check for the gulls and terns 
found Saturday in the Nashville bird count that I had missed due to being out 
of 
town.

I followed Chris's directions to the rookery, which I viewed from the 
Neighborhood Conservation Area, 3 miles south of Gallatin Road on Sanders Ferry 
Road, 
at a small parking area on the left side of the road.  The rookery is visible 
from the shore here, and lots of Double-Crested Cormorants were visible, with 
some Pied-Billed Grebes a lot closer.  I spotted some gulls, but nothing 
special at first.  Then I spotted two FORSTERS TERNS flying about, diving and 
catching small fish which were hitting the water everywhere.  After looking at 
immature gulls for a while, I noticed a dark head and darker gray back on one 
gull on what appears to be an upcoming extension to the Drakes Creek Boat Dock, 
just to the right of the rookery islands.  This was the FRANKLINS GULL, amidst 
a spattering of Ring-Billed Gulls.   I watched for a while for it to fly, but 
it only walked around a little and then flew into the water just on the other 
side of the structure and out of sight.

Ken Oeser
Hendersonville, TN 
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