[TN-Bird] Black-bellied Whistling Duck young photos-Ensley Bottoms

July 23, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
On Wednesday, I spent about an hour looking for mom and her charges.  
Finally, she brought them out of the weeds for a feed and splashing baths. The  
photos are poor, taken from about a quarter mile away but will be the best 
until  
she moves them to a more open area, out of the marsh. The young birds are far  
more distinctively marked than any of our regularly nesting ducks. The  
youngsters are hard to count but there are at least 10 maybe even one or two  
more. 
The following site updates the Black-bellied Whistling Duck movements and  
nesting here at the "pits" in Memphis.
 
_http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/blackbellied_whistling_ducks_ 
(http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/blackbellied_whistling_ducks) 
 
A quick trip around for shorebirds revealed the continued jump in numbers  of 
Western Sandpipers. This surge will soon pass to the south making them harder 
 to find among the growing numbers of Semipalmated and Least. Time for 
another  foreign traveler to show up;o)  
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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