FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Western Kingbirds and Scissor-tailed FC - Nesting Successes

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

July 2-3-4, 2005
West TN
Eastern AR
 
On Saturday, I located what I believe is the second nesting of a pair of  
Western Kingbirds in Ensley Bottoms. The first nest was abandoned and they 
moved  
to the south for a second nesting try. I also ran across an adult feeding two 
 fledged young just west of the Waste Water Treatment plant at Ensley. This 
was a  real surprise and I suspect they nested somewhere around the steel 
plant. I  photographed the bird carrying food to the two flying young and 
returned 
Sunday  to see them briefly in the same area but did not see them on Monday.
 
Dick Baxter had called me last Monday after visiting the Western Kingbird  
nests east of Blytheville, AR to report fledglings at one location there. On  
Sunday, I had a total of 9 young on and off the nests at three of the  
locations.
 
On Monday, I located another single adult Western Kingbird at a new  location 
in North Memphis. This bird was feeding a single newly fledged young.  This 
location is north of the Dewitt Spain Airport along the MS RV.
 
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher pair had moved east from their  nesting 
location on President's Island and were found with two young  stashed in a pine 
tree. 
A possible third was being fed by the male at a remote  location to the 
north. On Monday, the pair was seen briefly toward the north, as  they rested 
together but I could not follow them after they flew farther north.  I checked 
the 
area in Tipton Co, where I had seen an adult male Scissor-tailed  last month 
but had no sightings.
 
It seems like both species have pulled off successful nestings this  year.
 
 Good  Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN