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August 18, 2006
North Memphis - 51 Highway
Memphis, Shelby Co. TN
 
There were 13 immature Wood Storks in a drying water hole just off 51  
Highway north of Watkins, at noon today. There were 213 Great Egrets and a few  
Great Blue, so what ever they are eating will be gone soon. Mike and I will  
check 
this and a few other areas out tomorrow. Then it will be scope time at the  
pits. Last year on August 6th, I took a few bad photos of a bird that past for  
Little Stint, so why not now, with one strutting its stuff in KY.
 
I played hooky at lunch and got down to the river. There were a ton of  Black 
and Least Terns plus a few shorebirds including 8 Black-necked  Stilts. This 
species has almost disappeared from the pits at present.
 
Two of the 3 Little Stints I've had at Ensley were molting adult birds in  
August and the third was a sharp juvenile in September. Red-necked Stints have  
shown from August through October. Get to your closest shorebird place and  
watch.................Now!
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135


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