[TN-Bird] Ensley Fallout
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 07:47:48 -0400 (EDT)
April 16, 2011
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
The weather and migration joined for a typical Shorebird Fallout
yesterday. The rain had filled every low place and over night arrivals plus a
Wind
Bird fallout could be witnessed between 10 and about 11:30 with birds coming
in resting and groups breaking off to feed while others traveled on.
Counting in the densely vegetated pools was time consuming but worth the
effort.
All the numbers following are much lower than actual birds present;
American Golden-Plover - 3 flushed from a mown levee after hearing their
calls all morning, Semipalmated Plover - 6 (4 stayed and 2 continued on),
Killdeer - residents scattered, Black-necked Stilts - 31, Spotted Sandpiper-
2, Solitary - 212+ many more hidden in grass, Greater Yellowlegs- 4, Lesser
Yellowlegs - 427+, Willet - 3 dropped in around 11 AM, Semipalmated
Sandpiper -2, Western Sandpiper -3 of the fattest, most colorful males I've
ever
seen, Least Sandpiper -490++, Baird's Sandpiper - 1, Pectoral Sandpiper-
370+, Dunlin - 4, Stilt Sandpiper- 3 in complete winter garb, color to come,
and Wilson's Snipe 9+++ cryptic. Seventeen species with more today?
A single Harrier stirred the pot a couple of times and 103 molty, pin
feathered White-crowned Sparrows were photographed and counted feeding out in
closely mown grass, I've not seen so many ratty looking birds since the
poultry truck turned over at Lehi AR years ago. Everybody chasing chickens in
every direction for the pot.......The next year, in the same curve, a truck
load of Texas Oranges overturned in December, Merry Christmas!! An Orange
in every sock.
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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