[TN-Bird] Killdeer perched on Post?

Coahoma Co. MS
December 2004
 
 
On December 19, Mike Todd and I were traveling south on 61 Highway, going  to 
look for the Ruddy Ground-Dove south of Cleveland. Just north of the  
Jamestown intersection, I spotted 11 Sandhill Cranes settling in a field and  
just as 
I turned off the road, I noticed a bird sitting on a 6 inch square  concrete 
field post. It was some distance away and had its back to me, my first  
thought was a Kestrel but something made me stay on the bird as we drove closer 
 to 
the cranes, which were on our right; Mike was watching these birds  for any 
sign that there were getting antsy.
 
The bird on the post jumped off the post and glided down and landed on the  
ground about 50 feet away and even then I could not believe it was a  Killdeer. 
Mike asked me what I was watching as he noticed I had not been  commenting on 
the cranes and looking off to the left; he saw the bird on the  ground but 
never on the post.
 
Question??? Has anyone ever seen a Killdeer perch anywhere but on the  ground 
or on a flat roof? I've seen Yellowlegs and Solitary Sandpipers perch on  
branches off the ground around here but never a Killdeer on a post 5 foot off  
the ground?
 
This is what keeps me out there day after day, we just never know what new  
adventures or ideas these birds will thrust upon us............
 
PS: We took photos of the Sandhill Cranes and left them feeding and  were 
also successful on the Ruddy Ground-Dove search;o)  
Good  Birding!!!

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



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