FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Ensley and Eagle Lake

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

Sept. 6, 2004
Ensley Bottoms
Eagle Lake Refuge
Shelby Co. TN

A return to Ensley on Monday revealed very little movement and all the 
species present on Sunday were feeding away. The Wilson's Phalarope still moves 
around a lot and can be hard to find but the Baird's Sandpipers stayed 
concentrated in one pool with a couple feeding as loners in two other 
locations. 

I checked for the Mottled Duck a few times in the morning but the bird did 
not appear among the numerous Mallards. An Osprey hunted over McKellar and the 
TVA Lake. A single Broad-winged Hawk passed over heading south and the immature 
Cooper's raise the wind birds twice as it traded across the pits.

At Eagle Lake Refuge there were a couple of wet areas that a few shorebirds 
used and pair of birds not seen at Ensley over the weekend. These areas of 
marginal benefit to shorebirds produced a molting adult American Golden-Plover 
and 
an immature Long-billed Dowitcher. Just imagine what could be seen here if 
the area was actually managed for shorebirds.

Also present were: a single Semipalmated Plover, many Killdeer, Black-necked 
Stilts, 24 Lesser Yellowlegs, which tolerate the higher vegetation, 2 Solitary 
Sandpipers, feeding on the only two small flats of mud were 3 Semipalmated 
Sandpipers, 1 Western, 64 Least and 10 Stilt Sandpipers. Feeding in the dense 
sesbania were 2 Great Blue Herons, 31 Great Egrets, 11 immature Snowy and 9 
Little Blue immatures with 2 adults.


Good Birding!!!

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


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