FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Sightings Report 2 Nov 2006 Ensley Bottoms area

["John Walko" <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Location:     TVA PONDS
Observation date:     11/2/06,330pm-350pm

Notes:      Clear cool day, huge floats on the ponds. Blackbirds starting to
mass up in huge flocks.

Number of species:     8

 

Canada Goose     4     

Lesser Scaup     119     

Great Blue Heron     1     

American Coot     67     

Killdeer     5     

Belted Kingfisher     1     

European Starling     1000     

Red-winged Blackbird     200

 

Location:     TE Maxwell Lagoons

Observation date:     11/2/06, 350pm-510pm

Notes:      Bird of the day was the Loggerhead Shrike on the phone line
overlooking the old pumpkin fields. Good view of him, clean breast and good
solid mask and fully dark beak. Harrier soaring low over the western fields.
Lots of RT Hawks everywhere you look, at one time I had 5 in site at once.

Number of species:     14

 

Canada Goose     68     

Great Blue Heron     3     

Northern Harrier     1     

Red-tailed Hawk     9     

Killdeer     96     

Least Sandpiper     61     

Mourning Dove     38     

Northern Flicker     1     

Loggerhead Shrike     1     

Northern Mockingbird     2     

European Starling     300     

Song Sparrow     5     

Northern Cardinal     2     

Red-winged Blackbird     300

 

Location:     Riverport Rd Ponds / Swamp

Observation date:     11/2/06, 510pm-525pm

Notes:      Water way, way down since early in week. We need a substantial
amount of rain.

Number of species:     7

 

Canada Goose     9     

Gadwall     7     

Pied-billed Grebe     2     

Great Blue Heron     1     

Killdeer     3     

Northern Mockingbird     1     

European Starling     100        



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