Last evening (5/3) I walked the Brainerd Levee behind Boyd-Buchanan School. The water is drying quickly making some great shorebird and wader habitat. Highlights included: 1 juvenile Little Blue Heron 1 adult Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 5 Green Herons 3 Great Egrets 14 Least Sandpipers 2 Spotted Sandpipers 3 Solitary Sandpipers 25 Bobolinks 8 American Coots 1 Savannah Sparrow Kevin Calhoon Assistant Curator of Forests Tennessee Aquarium 423-785-4070