Took a two-day birding trip to Obion and Lake counties for Fourth of July. Stayed at Nancy Moore's Blue Basin and she was nice enough to run me around the basin Sat. a.m. A wonderful break. Obion County July 4: Anhinga (soaring overhead near entrance to Reelfoot NWR) great egret great blue heron Turkey vulture black vulture Acadian flycatcher (at closed visitors center) Great crested flycatcher American robin Northern cardinal Lake County (roaming through agricultural fields and along the top of the levee, and from dock of Blue Basin): Mallad Great egret Great blue heron Turkey vulture black vulture Osprey (Blue Basin) Mississippi kite (may have been in Kentucky) Bald eagle (first year, in dead tree along the levee) Least tern (Blue Basin) Lyda Phillips Davidson County