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 =================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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________