[TN-Bird] Royal Tern - Dacus Bar - Memphis

July 26, 2008
Dacus Bar
Shelby Co, TN
 
Here's an unexpected bird for the area. My third record for TN and there  are 
probably less than 5 records total and this is the second for Dacus Bar  
where an adult fed an immature bird after Katrina. Two little slips of sand 
have  
now appeared across from Mud Island as the river is dropping almost a foot a  
day.
 
Sitting in with a flock of 22 Forster's, 1 Common and 5 Least Terns was a  
slim built, large tern sporting a thin, plain tipped, orange  bill, long 
necked, 
with a white crown and forehead plus a shaggy black  crown behind the eye. In 
flight the bird had light upper wings and the  underwings showed only a faint 
dark trailing edge unlike the dark on  the primaries of Caspian. I could not 
believe my eyes but immediately knew  I was looking at a Royal. I've got poor 
but IDable photos. I called a few people  but everyone was tied up.
 
You might expect a storm assisted bird but?? why here? Why now?   
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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