Sunday, June 13, was a great day to be a Mississippi kite, especially if you were at Eagle lake WMA, Shelby County. A strong southwest wind following a line of thunderstorms sweeping across the Big River from Arkansas struck the bluff, providing an updraft for 26 kites, as well as other soaring raptors. The kites soared, dipped, swooped and swirled in the wind, obviously enjoying themselves. Anthromorphic? Maybe. But if they weren't having fun, what else were they doing? also observed: pied-billed grebe - 1 anhinga - 1 great blue heron - 5 great egret - 33 green heron - 2 black vulture - 3 turkey vulture - 5 Mississippi kite - 26 red-tailed hawk - 1 killdeer - 4 least tern - 5 mourning dove - 1 yellow-billed cuckoo - 1 red-headed woodpecker - 1 downy woodpecker - 1 pileated woodpecker - 1 Acadian flycatcher - 1 great crested flycatcher - 1 barn swallow - 8 crow - 1 Carolina wren - 4 blue-gray gnatcatcher - 2 white-eyed vireo - 5 parula - 1 redstart - 1 yellowthroat - 11 summer tanager - 2 cardinal - 2 indigo bunting - 32 dickcissel - 36 e meadowlark - 4 grackle - 6 red-winged blackbird - 125 Van Harris Millington, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================