[TN-Bird] Rain Birds! / WIND BIRDS!

March 31, 2007
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
Everyone knows by now, I love rainy days and storms, well today did not let  
me down. I arrived at the pits shortly after the heavy rain started. The first 
 run around did not produce much but the rain direction told me where to set 
up  to look at the best collection of birds. Going back to set up, I flushed a 
bird  just off the roadside, I could not believe my eyes, the bird was a 
godwit, the  first thought was get a look at the tail.....it was nothing more 
than 
a  Hudsonian and a March one at that!!
 
The bird flew out over the tailings and disappeared, I found it twice more  
over the next two hours in the pouring rain. It appeared to be a molting female 
 or a young male but the looks were short and after the first one distant. 
These  birds should just be returning to the coast right now but another storm 
has  put another good, big bird down at the pits. I'll try again  
tomorrow.......
 
Birds were flying all about as they occasionally do in rainstorms as they  
are nervous and anxious to get on with their northward journey. Killdeer are  
attending a few nests while others still are sorting things out. The following  
numbers were seen: 6 Black-necked Stilts, up from 4 on Tuesday, 3 Greater  
Yellowlegs, 21 Lesser 14 in one traveling group that put down and soon left, 6  
Solitary Sandpipers, 71 Least Sandpipers, 4 Baird's my first in TN for the 
year,  44 Pectoral Sandpipers and 8 Wilson's Snipe.
 
Total WIND BIRD species TEN, with more on the way.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135




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