Memphis Trip 2025

 From 5.14.25-5.17.25 my father, brother and I drove from Chicago, IL to Memphis, TN and back.

Mississippi Kite from Day 3

Day 1, 5.14.25:

Illinois: Rend Lake. Pictured: Baltimore Orioles, House Sparrows, Common Grackle.

Tennessee: Overton Park, Memphis. Pictured: Pileated Woodpecker.

Day 2, 5.15.25:

Tennessee: Overton Park, Memphis. Pictured: Mississippi Kites, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Northern Mockingbird, Great Crested Flycatcher, Carolina Wren, Box turtle, Horned Passalus Beetle.

Tennessee: Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Millington I. Pictured: Ruby-throated Hummingbirds

Tennessee: Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Millington II. Pictured: Mississippi Kites, Red-shouldered Hawk, Red-tailed Hawks, Black Vulture, Red-eared Slider, Skink.

Tennessee: Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Millington III. Pictured: Summer Tanagers, Northern Cardinal, Chipping Sparrows, Northern Parula, Chestnut-sided Warbler, American Redstarts, Prothonotary Warbler, Red-eyed Vireo, White-eyed Vireo, Indigo Bunting, Tufted Titmouse, Barn Swallow, Eastern Phoebes, Acadian Flycatcher, Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, White-breasted Nuthatches

Day 3, 5.16.25: 

Tennessee: Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, Millington. Pictured: Mississippi Kites, Red-tailed Hawk, Summer Tanager, White-eyed Vireo, Indigo Bunting, Eastern Phoebes, Common Box Turtle, very small frog, Zebra Swallowtail

Tennessee: Metal Museum, Memphis. Pictured: Mississippi Kites, Northern Mockingbirds, Turkey Vulture, American Kestrel, Southeastern Five-lined Skink

Day 4, 5.17.25: 

Missouri: Hayti Rest Area, Hayti. Pictured: Dickcissels, Common Grackles, Red-winged Blackbirds, Eurasian Collard Dove, Red-tailed Hawk, Ruby-throated Hummingbird