10/11/2015
Kentucky Lake
Big Sandy NWR
Big Sandy Mud Flats
Britton Ford NWR
Eagle Creek
Paris Landing State Park
Traveling
7 birders met at the usual meet up spot Saturday morning 10/10/15 in Big
Sandy , TN. They were Susan Arnold, Joe Hall, Ruben Stoll, Michael Todd,
Allen Troyer, Jack Zipperer, and myself. The day was a beautiful slightly
windy fall day. If my total is correct we saw 64 species.
Best were:
Big Sandy Unit
Peregrine Falcon
Sharp-shined Hawk
Lesser black-backed gull, Pace Point
Ruby - crowned Kinglet (fos)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Bobolink
Numerous Bald Eagles
Big Sandy Mudflats:
2 Laughing Gulls
1 Bonaparte's Gull
300+ American White Pelicans
Britton Ford:
Caspian Tern
Osprey
Eagle Creek:
Over 50 Forster's Terns
Lesser Black-backed Gull
Paris Landing State Park :
7 Lesser Black-backed Gulls, various ages
Herring Gulls
Bay - breasted Warbler
Large flock of Yellow-rump Warblers
Pine Warblers.
5 Gull species, 2 Tern Species, 6 Warbler Species. Great day was had by all.
Good birding
Stephen Zipperer
Rutherford Co
