[TN-Bird] Ahh! Sweet Youth - Ensley Bottoms

Aug. 16, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
This has been a busy week at the pits with more comings and goings than the  
Memphis Airport. Most of the turmoil caused by 20 to 30 Mississippi Kites  
consistently moving around the area and feeding really low on a huge dragonfly  
hatch. The big mover of Wind Birds was seen again on Thursday, the Peregrine  
that appears to be the same one that has been around for 2 weeks and 2 immature 
 Red-tailed and a Cooper's that also occasionally stir the mix.
 
Saturday, the juvenile birds were in fine fettle with my first sharply  
attire Western for the season joined by my first immature "sweet" Semipalmated  
Plover found among the many adults that have been around for a couple of weeks. 
 
The Semipalmated and Least Sandpiper juvenile numbers have really  jumped and 
makes for some great scope fulls of eye candy.
 
The over all numbers have suffered from the cool northwest wind and  
continued harassment from raptors but there are still 12 species to be  had if 
you 
take the time to search and there are many rewards for those  that do.
 
Short trips during the week found the Coot, Wood Ducks, Mallards, and  
Blue-wing Teal numbers holding with the female leucistic Mallard still around  
but I 
only briefly saw a single Black-bellied Whistling Duck. The bird was in  
dense cover and immediately disappeared, hope the young are doing well, they  
should be flying in about 3 more weeks.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.




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