[tn-bird] Black and White Terns - West TN
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 07:20:09 EDT
Aug. 17-18, 2002
Mississippi River
It was a case of one good tern deserving another and another and another,
this weekend along the Mississippi River. It started early Saturday at the
Dacus Bar on the river front in Memphis with 23 Black Terns, 1 Forster's and
21 Least Terns. Then 3 Black Terns at the pits plus 6 Least Terns of which 4
were juveniles.
I crossed over into Arkansas to head to the Reelfoot area and had close to 80
Black Terns, 9 Least Terns and a distant molting sterna type, on a quick stop
at Wapannoca NWR.
At the I-155 bridge landing in Dyer County, I counted 190 Black Terns and 7
Least Terns. There I ran into the support group of a Slovenian (Martin Strel)
that is swimming down the Mississippi River. I waited and very soon he swam
into view escorted by 2 kayaks and a larger boat. He came in for a quick
lunch and was back into the water in under 20 minutes. He makes 40 to 50
miles a day and will stop in Memphis on Monday. He will finish his 2360 mile
swim in 66 days on September 7. If interested I have other details of this
remarkable swimmer. He was really chugging.
At White Lake I had 3 Least Terns and at Reelfoot Lake I found 5 Black Terns,
4 Least Terns, 1 Caspian and a distant sterna type.
Back on the Mississippi at Tiptonville landing we had over 200 Black Terns, 5
Caspian, 2 Common, 1 Forster's, 3 other sterna and 13 Least terns using the
high numbers from 3 visits. Further down river in the bend I counted 180+
Black Terns, 5 Least, 3 Ring-billed Gulls and finally at Island 13 over 40
Least and 3 Black.
I looked at swarming Black Terns until cross eyed and not a White-winged in
the bunch.
E-Tern-ally yours and
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.
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