[TN-Bird] Dos Avocets at TVA Lake / Rio Grande Run

Oct. 29, 2004
TVA Lake
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN

I missed the pits last week because of a quickie trip to the Rio Grande 
Valley for a little birding and the opening of the World Birding Center: I 
could 
not wait for the weekend and cut out a little early this afternoon.

There were a lot of Gadwall, Shovelers, Coots and Ring-billed Gulls sleeping 
on the ash spits and hunkered in the middle were two male, winter plumaged 
Avocets. For the first time in two months the injured Snowy Egret was not 
present 
but in among the Great Egrets was an immature Cattle Egret, different from 
the one two weeks ago as it had a solid yellow bill and yellowish legs.

There are still a few thousand shorebirds with Killdeer, Lesser Yellowlegs, 
Western, Least, Dunlin and Stilt Sandpipers plus a couple of Wilson's Snipe 
seen in one short turn around the area.

For those that might be leaning toward a Rio Grande Run the Black-headed 
Nightingale Thrush showed up after an extended absence and we had great looks 
at a 
male Green-breasted Mango Hummingbird. Lots of nice photo opps. Even got to 
photo a Black Witch Moth and a Malachite Butterfly. It was a trip mainly to 
introduce another birder to the area so we birdied mainly for habitat from 
Laguna 
Atascosa to Falcon Dam and got 140 species in 2-1/2 days. The Valley is still 
the super producer but getting harder to bird because of the extensive 
development. If you have not been down for a while you will not recognize most 
of 
the area.


Good Birding!!!

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


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