[TN-Bird] Avocet and 2 Wilson's Phalarope / Ensey

Aug. 22, 2004
Mud Island - Ensley bottoms
Shelby Co. TN

The migration evident yesterday took its toll on some species but increased 
others. The male Avocet was still hanging with the ducks and the immature 
Wilson's Phalarope number doubled as a very young male took up foraging in a 
different pool from where the Saturday bird still hunts.

The numbers of Semipalmated, Western and Pectoral Sandpipers were down. The 
Semipalmated Plovers were down to just two adult birds and the Lesser 
Yellowlegs and Stilt Sandpiper numbers were cut in half. The numbers of Least 
Sandpipers took a big leap up but the immature birds still lag and again no 
Pectoral 
immatures could be found in the hundreds present.

There was a movement of accipiters going south as 3 high flying immature 
Cooper's and a small adult male Sharpie were pointed out to me as they passed 
overhead. The immature Cooper's that has taken up hunting the fields still 
excites 
the birds when it crosses the flats.

On Mud Island I added a single breeding plumaged Black-bellied Plover to the 
weekend Wind Bird list plus 3 Caspian Terns, 5 Forster's and 47 Least Terns.


Good Birding!!!

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


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