[TN-Bird] Peregrine and Mississippi Rv traffic

Aug. 28, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Mississippi River Front
Shelby Co, Memphis TN
 
I had an hour to spare and dropped into the pits just in time to see a  
Peregrine chase up the largest crowd of shorebirds I've seen this year.  
Unfortunately most kept going out to the river and I did not have time to wait  
for 
their return. The cloud of "peeps" was huge and the Peregrine was  relentless.
 
On the Mississippi, there were two small pods of Pied-billed Grebes, 6  and 8 
birds, they usually are a week or so later in moving but I've seen  over 100 
at a time resting in the eddies behind the rock dikes after a long  night's 
flight. A group of 45 plus White Pelicans took flight from north of the  
Loosahatchie Bar and another 120 soared lazily high in the sky heading south.  
Great 
Blue Herons and Great Egrets sprinkled the shoreline and 2 Snowy Egrets  
danced in the shallows north of the Loosahatchie Bar. A few Killdeer were all  
the 
shorebirds seen but the bars are ready but a steady trickle of Tree Swallows  
skimmed the water headed downstream.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.




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