[TN-Bird] River Front and Ensley

August 20, 2005
Mississippi River 
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
A few more birds were found on the mud flats at the low and getting lower  
Mississippi River. The river has bounced up and down a couple of feet over the  
last week with the gauge at Memphis no longer recording anything below the  
negative figure -3.65.
 
The two birds that first caught my eye, were whirling around in one pool  and 
after a while one started to preen and satisfied my ID of Wilson's Phalarope  
with a look at the upper wing. A single, molting Black Tern hung out with  
the Least Terns.
 
At Ensley the immature Ruddy Turnstone is still tossing clods around and  
long HOT periods of scanning the flats produced another single, this time an  
adult BAIRD'S SANDPIPER. The rest of the numbers appeared the same with a 
slight  
increase in Pectoral Sandpipers. An immature Cooper's Hawk made strafing like 
 runs over the pits and kept the Wind Birds in the wind.
 
 
Now to head north and see if it is as hot in the counties north of  here.
 
 
Good  Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN

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