[TN-Bird] West Tennessee - June 7 Memphis Area

This past weekend - June 7-9 - Tom McNeil and myself ventured to West Tennessee 
to bird the Memphis area and Reelfoot Lake.  On Saturday (June 7) , in the 
Memphis area we visited the Ensley Bottoms area. Not having visited the area 
before, we basically hunted and pecked the area but still found some good 
birds.  The list that follows includes T.O. Fuller State Park:

E = Ensley Bottoms (Earth Complex)
TO - T.O. Fuller State Park

Canada Goose - E
Mallard - E
Blue-winged Teal - E
Northern Bobwhite - E
Double-crested Cormorant - E
Great Blue Heron - E
Great Egret - E
Cattle Egrete - E
Turkey Vulture - E
Mississippi Kite (5) - TO
American Kestrel - E
Killdeer - E
Black-necked Stilt (w/chicks) - E
Pectoral Sandpiper - E
Mourning Dove - E
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - E
Chimney Swift - E
Ruby-throated Hummingbird - E
Red-bellied Woodpecker - E
Northern Flicker - E
Pileated Woodpecker - E
Eastern Wood-Pewee - TO
Acadian Flycatcher - TO
Great-crested Flycatcher - E
Eastern Kingbird - E
White-eyed Vireo - E
Red-eyed Vireo - E
Horned Lark - E
Barn Swallow - E
C. Chickadee - TO
Tufted Titmouse - TO
Carolina Wren - TO
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - E, TO
Wood Thrush - TO
American Robin - TO
Northern Mockingbird - E
Starling - TO, E
Northern Parula - TO, E
Prothonotary Warbler - TO
Kentucky Warbler - TO
Common Yellowthroat - E
Hooded Warbler - TO
Yellow-breasted Chat - E
Summer Tanager - E
Indigo Bunting - E
Painted Bunting - female seen , male heard - E
Dickcissel - E
Red-winged Blackbird - E
Eastern Meadowlark - E
Western Meadowlark - E
Common Grackle - E
Brown-headed Cowbird - E
Orchard Oriole - E
Baltimore Oriole - E

From there we ventured over to Shelby Farms where we found Allan Trently 
finishing up with the volunteers on National Trails Day.  Here we found:

Mississippi Kites (24)
Horned Larks
White-eyed Vireos
Pileated Woodpeckers

and howling Coyotes responding to the many air sirens performing their noon day 
tests...

From here we travelled farther north of Memphis to the Shelby Forest Area / 
Park where we added:

Wood Duck
Wild Turkey
Black Vulture
More - Mississippi Kites (13)
Barred Owl
Downy Woodpecker
Yellow-throated Vireo
Fish Crow
Black and White Warbler
Cerulean Warbler

Also along the Mississippi River we had Least Terns.

We stayed in Jackson and after dark we had Common Nighthawks and early mornings 
we had Purple Martins.

Rob Biller
Elizabethton, TN
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