FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] MTOS field trip today

["William Peeples" <wpeeples@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

8 Sep 2002
EARTH Complex and area

    Memphis TOS held its first of the season scheduled field trip today, at the 
EARTH Complex (aka Ensley or the "Pits").  Weather wasn't bad; not terribly 
hot, sky clear to partly cloudy.
    There were 8 observers including Virginia Reynolds, hike leader.  We found 
70 species from about 7 a.m. to noon.  Before hitting the pits, we checked the 
TVA Lake and rode to the river, past the gate (key was obtained) -- that road 
was partly grown over with 5-foot high grass and vegetation, but we still made 
it to the river.
    Our party found 13 species of shorebirds, including 4 Sepalmated Plovers, 
over 400 Killdeer, 70+ Black-necked Stilts, 1 Greater and 100+ Lesser 
Yellowlegs, 1 Spotted Sandpiper, several Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers, 
over 3000 Least Sandpipers and nearly 1000 Pectorals, and 8 Stilt Sandpipers.  
We were able to locate 13 of the Buff-breasted and 5 of the Baird's Sandpipers 
of the larger numbers of them that have been there for the last few days.
    Also, we found a Pied-billed Grebe, a few cormorants; Great and Little Blue 
and Green herons, Great Egrets, 20 Wood Ducks, a Turkey Vulture and a Wild 
Turkey, 6 Least Terns, 8 Eurasian Collared-Doves, a Screech-Owl, and Baltimore 
Oriole.  Warblers were 2 Parulas, 2 Prothonotaries, and a Blackburnian.

Rob Peeples
Curator, Memphis TOS
Germantown, TN

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