[TN-Bird] Mississippi River - Memphis - Common Terns/ Piping Plover

Aug. 17, 2008
Memphis River Front
 
This morning an hour's wait produced very little, even though the sand bars  
have finally over come the grasp of the big muddy. Five Least Terns rested on  
one bar and 6 Killdeer paced around the others. A sprinkling of Great Blues 
and  a single Great Egret. It will take about a week to 10 days before there 
will be  any food so shorebirds will just set down to rest for now.
 
This afternoon, there were 9 Least Terns but on the toe of one slip of sand  
sat FIVE COMMON TERNS and one Forster's. I watched as they went through two 
rest  periods and two feeding rounds before they disappeared going up stream. 
There  were 9 Mississippi Kites feeding just north of the Wolf River and a 
couple of  Eastern Kingbirds.
 
The surprise later was a PIPING PLOVER that came in with 2 Pectoral  and 2 
Least Sandpipers around 4:30 and left as a group at 4:45............  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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