[TN-Bird] Ensley Laggards Update

June 11, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co, TN
 
Ensley still holds surprises, I spent a couple of hours down there and got  a 
few photos of the suspected melanurus Black-necked Stilt with her mate at the 
 nest. But there were other goodies in the goo. The breeding plumaged Stilt  
Sandpiper with the bum wing is still hanging in there but it will take a lot 
of  luck to avoid all the predators. A Semipalmated Plover and a Lesser 
Yellowlegs  have been around for a week but the Least Sandpipers are down to 
2-3 
birds,  Semipalmated Sandpipers down to a single and now only 3 White-rumped.
 
The most unexpected bird was a male SPOTTED SANDPIPER, hanging close to a  
bunch of grass. I spent 30 minutes watching but it just rested. Years ago,  
Marvin Davis and I had a male tending a single youngster in the same area. 
Could  
history repeat itself? I'll be watching. Anyway NINE species of shorebirds,  
almost in mid-June, will keep you going back.
 
The Am. Coot is staying in the same place and a female Blue-winged Teal is  
hustling 5 or 6 young. The are quite a few males around so we might have other  
Blue-wings out there on nests.
 
No Mottled Duck but the Scissor-tail is sitting tight on President's Island  
and I finally located the Western/Scissor-tail hybrid's nest in Frayser. Just 
as  in previous years she has started a nest at the same place only to move 
it. She  seems pretty happy on the new location with the Western male watching  
nearby. There is a pair of Westerns at the new Chelsea location but  I've not 
located a nest.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
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