[TN-Bird] New Wind Bird Returns plus aerial dog fight

July 14, 2009
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
A quick turn about the "Pits" found more birds set down by bad weather. A  
slightly molted breeding plumaged Stilt Sandpiper and a heavily marked 
female  Spotted Sandpiper were among new finds but the Short-billed Dowitchers 
and  Semipalmated Plover had evidently headed south. The numbers of Least 
Sandpipers  had more than doubled and one flat held 11 Pectoral Sandpiper plus 
more Western  and Semipalmated Sandpipers.
 
The equipment and work being done on the levees at TVA Lake has kept the  
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks at bay but I did see one hiding in the weeds at 
 the pits but I did not have time to look for others. Two sets of young 
Western  Kingbirds are still being fed at nests on President's Island but no  
Scissor-tails were found.
 
I watched as a soaring Red-tailed Hawk was set upon by a Cooper's  Hawk, 
while the latter was being dogged by an Eastern Kingbird and a Chimney  Swift 
circled above the swirling group egging then on.  
Good Birding  !!!

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