[TN-Bird] Black-bellied Whistlers and Least Terns - Shelby Co. TN and DeSoto Co. MS

July 4, 2010
Shelby Co. TN
DeSoto Co. TN
 
 
As if the high river is not enough to contend with, pushing the Least Terns 
 to nest anywhere they can, now land predators are giving them heck at TVA 
Lake.  Coyote will just trundle around on these ash flats and are a threat 
but now 4  immature and 2 adult Great Blue Herons are snatching youngsters. I 
saw one  chick taken while the colony of adults dove on the other Great 
Blues trying  to drive them away. At least 2 of the nests have produced young.
 
The numbers of Black-bellied Whistlers varied on TVA Lake over the morning  
from 7 to 14, while over on President's Island, 8 were found in the river 
back  waters and another 11 were seen just across the state line, in a wet 
spot west  of Walls Mississippi. Just 32 seen on the day but no telling how 
many are around  in west TN.
 
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.


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