[TN-Bird] Masses of Eurasian Collared-Doves - Memphis
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 09:48:28 EST
Jan. 15, 2004
President's Island
Shelby, Co. TN
Thursday afternoon, I spent a couple of hours searching through the flocks of
Mourning and Collared Doves. The numbers were unbelievable as they scrounged
for waste grain. I took photo after photo of the hordes of EUCD and found all
the regressive genes making appearances in these birds. I even found one bird
that was reddish or ruddy colored. At one place I took a photo of a group of
doves sitting on a rock pile with a Cooper's Hawk sitting in a tree behind
them. A couple of doves were brave enough to even sit in the same tree but the
hawk evidently had just fed and the distended crop probably was all the info
the
birds needed.
My count exceeded all previous counts that I've had at this site, an
immpresssive 624 EUCD were counted with many more hidden and tucked away. It is
amazing how they can almost disappear and reappear from one day to the next but
it
is all food related and a lot of birds trade over to the railyard across
McKellar Lake near the road into Ensley.
Quite a few morning doves can bluster their way into this feeding mob but a
good percentage forage together in other areas. When the long lines of doves
are sitting on power lines and an EUCD wants a place to sit, they just land on
the back of a Mourning dove and force it off its perch. There was even a good
sized flock of Grackles holding their on at one grain-filled rail car and a
huge flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds roll feeding at another location.
Somewhere in this diverse mix a good bird is lurking...............
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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