August 13, 2006 Mud Island, Ensley Bottoms and Mud Lake. Memphis, Shelby Co. TN Saturday, on the sand bar out from Mud Island there were 7 -Black, 2 Common and 25+ Least Terns plus a few scattered shorebird species. On Sunday, the Common Terns had left Mud Island but Mike Todd and I found another at Mud Lake. Shorebirds on the sandbars included, Black-necked Stilts, Pectoral, Least, Semipalmated, Killdeer, Semipalmated Plover, Pectoral, Solitary and Spotted. On Sunday, there was an Osprey hunting the river at Mud Island and we found 7 Mississippi Kites doing acrobatics around the high-rise buildings downtown. We could ferret out nothing new at the pits shorebird wise and decided to look for waders at Mud and Cocklebur Lakes on the MS/TN line. Here in TN, we counted over 750 Great Egrets, only 1 Snowy Egret, a few dozen Great Blue Herons and FOUR Anhinga (2 adult, 2 immature) plus the Common Tern being harassed by Rough-winged Swallows. Good Birding !!! Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA 6298 Memphis-Arlington Road Bartlett, TN 38135 =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________