[TN-Bird] Quad Bobbers + ANHINGA at Ensley

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 3 May 2011 23:17:55 -0400 (EDT)
April 3, 2011
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
A quick afternoon run around at the "Pits" found far fewer  species and 
numbers. A single BAIRD'S SANDPIPER was a good find and the single  
White-rumped found yesterday was still present, also at least a dozen  Wilson's 
Phalarope but no Dowitchers. The numbers of Semipalmated Sandpipers  jumped 
considerably over night.
 
While watching an alert Lesser Yellowlegs pump its head, a  Solitary teeter 
and a Spotted bobbing, another tail bobber landed in with the  other three, 
a Northern Waterthrush!! Looked like a rumba contest.
 
The 6 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks are still present, 4 stay  close 
together (maybe a family group that has not broken up yet) while the other  two 
stay off to themselves. The Painted Bunting is still singing from the west  
tree line at the pits.
 
A nice finish for the afternoon, while driving along on  Riverport Road, a 
dark bird sitting in the top of a tree in the Horn  Lake Cutoff, too dark to 
be a DC Cormorant and worth a U-turn, morphed into  a male ANHINGA, 
sporting a bright blue eye ring, waited long enough for me  to get out the 
camera............... I think Sumershoe  had one circling over the Ensley area 
sometime this  weekend. 
 
 
Good  Birding!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington  Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is  this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the  heavens.

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