[tn-bird] Re: Black Terns

Quick correction:

The two Black Terns we had were at Paris Landing State Park in Henry
County.  The only terns we found at Mud Lake were numerous Least Terns.

I have a few Black Tern records from Old Hickory Lake in June, although
they are mostly associated with thunderstorms.  I don't think that
association is statistically significant, but it's interesting
nonetheless.

Chris Sloan
chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx
Nashville, TN

> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Tuesday, June 18, 2002 4:26 PM
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> Subject: [tn-bird] Re: Black Terns
> 
> 
> In a message dated 6/18/02 1:31:21 PM Central Daylight Time, 
> TigerWrblr@xxxxxxx writes:
> 
> 
> > These were the first I had seen in TN this
> > year, and the first I had ever seen in TN in
> > June.
> > 
> 
> Chris Sloan and Jay Desgrosellier mention to me that they had 
> a few on the 
> back side of Mud Lake in Lake Co. this past Saturday. This is 
> one bird that 
> is hard to tell when it is coming or going. Here long the 
> Mississippi River I 
> have recorded Black Terns traveling north as late as June 17 
> but I've had 
> adults with young traveling south as early as June 22 at two 
> locations the 
> same day. I've recorded numbers in the hundreds along the 
> Mississippi/Alabama 
> coast as early as July 1; are these birds that just did not 
> make the trip or 
> are a lot of birds coming back that early when we are not 
> looking? The big 
> movement south for these birds starts in mid July and 
> continues until late 
> September. I've even had one bird on the Texas coast over the 
> Christmas 
> Holidays many years back.
> 
> Chris and Jay also had a healthy group of White-rumped, a 
> single Semipalmated 
> Sandpiper and a few Least at the pits in Memphis Saturday. 
> These birds will 
> surely pass the first returning shorebirds as they will 
> appear over the 
> coming weekend and increase in numbers each successive day 
> thereafter. I'm a 
> waitin'.
> 
> Good Birding!!!
> 
> Jeff R. Wilson
> OL' COOT / TLBA
> Bartlett Tenn.
> 
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