Eagle Lake W.M.A. Shelby County TN 7 Aug 2004 Virginia Reynolds and I birded Eagle Lake refuge this morning. Seven species of herons and of raptors; highlights below. Pied-billed Grebe 2 White Pelican 30 (flying over trees on a thermal) ANHINGA 1 male Herons: Great Blue 10 Little Blue 25 Green 5 Black-crowned Night 1 adult Yellow-crowned Night 1 immature Egrets: Great 60 Snowy 3 Vultures: Black 1 Turkey 3 Mississippi Kite 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 (scared the shorebirds, I thought at first was a Peregrine) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Broad-winged Hawk 6 Red-tailed Hawk 4 American Golden Plover 1, fantastic breeding plumagge Semipalmated Plover 4 Killdeer 65 Black-necked Stilt 30 Lesser Yellowlegs 2 Sandpiper: Solitary 2 Spotted 7 Least 12 Pectoral 20 Least Tern 2 Catbird 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Raccoon 1 Rob Peeples Germantown, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================