[TN-Bird] Adult Lesser Black-backed Gull and Franklin's at Reelfoot

Oct. 11-12, 2008
Memphis to Reelfoot
Dyer and Lake Co. TN
 
Heading north on Saturday, I found 2 adult Bald Eagles and 2 MERLIN at  
Heloise. There was not a single bird at Island 13, 4 wheelers?  On  Tiptonville 
Bar, a single immature Bald Eagle and a few Killdeer on Saturday but  19 
Ring-billed Gulls showed up Sunday. I hurried to get to Reelfoot to see what  
might be 
coming to the gull roost, I was not disappointed, almost immediately in  flew 
a full adult LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL, my first adult on the lake. Glen  
Criswell had found an adult off 79 highway years ago, which I  photographed for 
the area's first adult record.
 
At the lake roost, there were a half dozen Herring, 24 Ring-billed  and 5 
FRANKLIN'S GULLS. Forster's Terns were sitting and flying everywhere,  a 
conservative estimate of 200 plus birds but nothing else of tern note. There  
are over 
1,000 White Pelicans and thousands of Cormorants in the area. Other  Lake 
birds were Great Blue, Great Egret, Coot, Pied-billed Grebe, Mallards,  
Blue-winged and Green-winged Teal plus Ruddy Duck pods scattered around. Nine  
SNOW 
GEESE out in the stump fields and surrounded by fishermen were a  surprise, 6 
Snow and 3 Blue morph.
 
Sunday, I added Bonaparte's Gull and was treated to an amazing number of  
warblers. The wind damaged trees were full of dead leaves and evidently brought 
 
on a massive hatch of web worms and insects. I have not seen the numbers 
shaking  the trees since Mike Todd, Mark Greene and I experienced a spring fall 
out 
a few  years back near Porter's Gap. There would be dozens in a single tree 
until the  wind picked up. I sat in one place and recorded: Blue-winged (1), 
Tennessee,  Nashville, Parula, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Yellow-rumped, 
Black-throated  Green, Blackburnian (5), Yellow-throated, Redstart, Pine, Black 
and 
White plus  later at the water's edge Palm, Northern Waterthrush and Common  
Yellowthroat.
 
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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