FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Memphis - Wood Storks 3, - Baird's -5, Buff-breasted 9, Peregrine Won

[olcoot1@xxxxxxx]

Sept. 7, 2007
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co, TN
After work today and just in time for a little squall, I made it down to the 
bottoms. I checked the barrow pits on my way in and nothing but a few hundred 
Great Egrets along the way. At TVA Lake, there were 14 Ring-billed Gulls and 
near a hundred DC Cormorants. The Peregrine had had an afternoon snack and I 
got some really neat shots but the bird was not a neat eater as its front was 
streaked and blotched with red. I got about the best photos that you can get of 
the species. This bird has been around all week.

At the pits, the front had dropped in a lot of new birds. Tomorrow will be a 
busy day. I ran across 5 Baird's and evidently the signaling Buffy has called 
down a few more buddies for a quick count of 9 feeding in the pigweed.

On the way out, at 6:30 I had 3 Wood Storks in with the Great Egrets, evidently 
they use this as a way station going to feed and to roost as finding them takes 
multiple trips. Any way a lot of good birds holding for photos.

Jeff R. Wilson
Ol'Coot / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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