[TN-Bird] Chickasaw NWR
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sat, 9 Jul 2005 23:36:26 EDT
July 9, 2005
Chickasaw NWR
Lauderdale Co. TN
The long hot walk into Chickasaw produced one new Wind Bird for the season,
the expected Short-billed Dowitcher sporting wide fringed mantle feathers,
short tibia and tarsus plus wing extension. This bird was expected where the
Long-billed of last week was way ahead of normal or a laggard that just turned
around early. There were fewer shorebirds with only 84 Least Sandpipers and a
single Stilt Sandpiper.
One neat sighting was a Diamond-backed Water Snake crossing a mud flat
accompanied by a group of Least Sandpipers and Killdeer. They walked it clean
across the flat about 50 feet craning their necks and walking very upright. I
got
a few distant shots through the scope.
At dusk the egrets headed to roost and I counted 221 Great Egrets, 17 Snowy,
while 19 Great Blue stayed to hunt the night shift. Again, no Little Blues,
adult or immature were seen.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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