Having survived the Civil War reenactment of the Battle (skirmish, massacre?) of Fort Pillow, members of the Memphis Chapter of TOS continued to Lower Hatchie NWR (Lauderdale Cty). Observers were Linda and John Zemple, Lee Frazier, Carloyn Bullock, Pat Kiernan, Dick Preston, Sylvia Worthen, Barbara Hardin, Betty and David Blaylock, Anne Hooper, Judy Dorsey and Van Harris. OBSERVED: pied-billed grebe - 3 great blue heron - 1 great egret - 1 Canada goose - 2 mallard - 4 blue-winged teal - 100 turkey vulture - 2 Mississippi kite - 1 red-shouldered hawk - 1 red-tailed hawk - 3 yellow rail - 1 king rail - 1 coot - 15 semipalmated plover - 2 killdeer - 6 greater yellowlegs - 100 solitary sandpiper - 6 spotted sandpiper - 1 least sandpiper - 10 pectoral sandpiper - 25 long-billed (?) dowitcher - 1 Wilson snipe - 20 mourning dove - 2 red-headed woodpecker - 2 red-bellied woodpecker - 1 e kingbird - 1 horned lark - 1 purple martin - 2 rough-winged swallow - 1 barn swallow - 1 fish crow - 1 sedge wren - 1 marsh wren - 1 blue-gray gnatcatcher - 3 e bluebird - 4 mockingbird - 2 starling - 1 white-eyed vireo - 2 parula - 2 yellow-rumped warbler - 2 yellow-throated warbler - 4 prothonotary warbler - 4 yellowthroat - 1 summer tanager - 1 cardinal - 1 savannah sparrow - 15 swamp sparrow - 2 red-winged blackbird - 100 e meadowlark - 12 grackle - 2 brown-headed cowbird - 12 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================