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Nov. 2, 2003
Tiptonville, Island 13,
Everett Lake and Heloise
Lake and Dyer Co. TN
Island 13 had little to offer but it did have a few good birds with two 
groups of American White Pelicans (56-76) in the air and another 47 on the 
water. 
Add those to the 660 counted on a slip of sand at Heloise and the birds on 
Tiptonville Bar and I ended the day with 1082 Pelicans. There were Killdeer all 
around the shrinking Island 13 pool with 2 Greater Yellowlegs and a dozen Least 
Sandpipers for the shorebird list and 6 Ring-billed Gulls on the water plus a 
dozen Franklin's passing during my time there.

At the boat ramp west of Mud Lake on the Mississippi, I had another small 
group of Franklin's. At the 79 and 181 highway junction there were 46 Wilson's 
Snipe, 17 Greater Yellowlegs, 2 Lesser and 7 Least Sandpipers with numerous 
Killdeer. At Everett Lake there was a great mix with 211 Killdeer, 31 Greater 
Yellowlegs, 4 Lesser YL, 2 Western, 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper (getting late), 
359 
Least, 38 Dunlin, 12 Stilt Sandpiper, and 67 Wilson's Snipe. Water Pipits were 
seen is small numbers on most of the sandbars. 

Good Birding!!!

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


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