[TN-Bird] Mississippi River Watch

Sept. 29, 2005
Mud Island-Dacus and Loosahatchie Bar
Shelby Co. TN
 
Another hour or so early Thursday morning found lots of Tree, Rough-winged  
and a few Barn Swallows plus Chimney Swifts still plying their trades. Two  
ring-billed Gulls and one Caspian Tern traded by going south but 3 Forster's  
Terns bucked the trend and steadily flew north into the wind and out of  sight?
 
Two groups of Pied-billed Grebes plopped in an eddy behind one of the  levees 
and started splashing and preening after a long nights journey. Only a  total 
of 12 birds but once I had over 100 fly in on top of me, one foggy morning  
on Dacus Bar, when it was more accessible.
 
Higher up DC Cormorants and Blue-winged Teal passed south along with 1  
Cooper's, 1 Broad-winged and an immature and adult Bald Eagle. A single  Osprey 
sat 
in a dead snag either having just had breakfast or waiting for an  
opportunity............  

Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135

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