Saturday morning ( July 2 ) we went to O'Neal Lake at the Hatchie NWR in Haywood Co to see Carolyn Bullock's white ibises. We had seen the same bird down in Texas, but never in Tennessee.
7 White Ibises, first year ( brown and white with brown beaks ) 9 Little Blue Herons, 6 adults and 3 immatures 3 Great Egrets 2 Great Blue Herons 1 Red Tailed Hawk 1 Belted Kingfisher, female 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Eastern Kingbirds Wood Ducks lots of Indigo Buntings lots of Barn Swallows and of course, the usual suspects
Robert Fowler Memphis, TN
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