[TN-Bird] New Juvenile Wind Birds - Ensley Bottoms

Aug. 21, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
A quick trip to the "pits" today found Mississippi Kites still busy low  over 
the area but only about 1/2 of Sunday's total. A lot of the shorebirds  still 
hunkered in the spread fields but new birds were evident, as I found my  
first immature Baird's and Pectoral Sandpipers for the year plus 9 of 12 Stilt  
Sandpipers were also in fine juvenile plumage.
 
Some migrating families of Black-necked Stilts had found the pits and 2  
separate Buff-breasted were in the cut Pigweed. Thirteen species of Wind Birds  
for today but this has been one of the craziest fall migrations I've ever  
witnessed here with a lot of early fast birds but few birds hanging around  and 
young birds showing up slightly earlier that usual but in small numbers.  Maybe 
this weather will slow some movement down for this weekend.
 
Out on the MS RV, where the sandbars are in full bloom with the river about  
at normal stage for this time of the year, I had 21 Least Terns and a  
collection, strewn up and down the front, of 23 Black-necked Stilts plus a 
large  
group of shorebirds resting on the upper Loosahatchie Bar but too far to get 
any  
IDs.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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