[TN-Bird] Flood Birding
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 18:14:45 -0400 (EDT)
May 10, 2011
Shelby Co. TN
The mighty Mississippi rose to an almost record tying 47.87 feet last
night here at Memphis, just .87 foot short of the 1937 Wang-Dang and will
hang
around at that level for a few days. They are continually walking the
levees and watching sand blows but all looks good so far.
At the "Pits", the Wind Bird numbers dwindle but the changing diversity
still at 15 species with a single, adult female Ruddy Turnstone found tossing
clods in the west spread fields. TWENTY ONE - Black-bellied Whistlers
lounging around the pools plus lots of Blue-winged Teal, a few Shovelers with
Mallards and Canada Geese parading young.
A 4th Loggerhead Shrike nest was found at Ensley and a macabre corpse of a
naked, headless, large baby bird was photographed hanging from a bard wire
fence larder. It may be a squab as it had large feet but was featherless;
I'll study the photo to see what I can come up with. I've seen adult
Bluebirds hanging from fences and watched a Shrike ride an Eastern Meadowlark
to
the ground and dispatch the bird with a bite to the neck. It dragged the
bird under a bush and tore off chucks which it took to a nest to feed 6 young.
Got Big family, Hunt big birds........
The big surprise for the day, a PAIR of ANIHINGAS are now using Horn Lake
Cutoff. While photographing the male sunning with its wings spread, I
looked up on a dead tree and found a female preening. Probably the easiest
Anhingas to relocate that I've ever had in TN except for the nests out on the
Mississippi River.
A ride around Memphis now produces Mississippi Kites feeding just about
anywhere above the tree tops.
PS: I just got a report that the White-faced Ibis was relocated this
afternoon in the Phillipy area of the Black Bayou Refuge at Reelfoot.
Good Birding!!
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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