[TN-Bird] Ensley / Day 2

August 24, 2003
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
Had a study session for 4-1/2 hours this morning and between 9:30 and 11:30 
there was a movement of shorebirds, both dropping in and leaving. The numbers 
remain about as high as I've ever seen them over such a long period of time. 
Today the 2 Uplands were flushed from the field they were in yesterday. Two 
Buff-breasted were seen in one of the spread fields, a Baird's and a molting 
adult 
Sanderling were ranging around in the hordes of peeps. The Wilson's Phalarope 
was feeding just as frenetically as yesterday and both Long-billed and 
Short-billed Dowitchers appeared over night. The weekend shorebird species 
total was 
a fine round 20, it doesn't get too much better

More Caspian Terns were using the river along with another Ring-billed Gull 
and 4 Forster's Terns. The Least Tern numbers had doubled from yesterday.

Did not see any sign of the Wood Storks today............

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


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