[TN-Bird] Scoters/Sanderlings Plus at Ensley

Nov. 19, 2004
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
A late afternoon trip to TVA Lake and Ensley proved to be just the thing for 
these dreary days. At TVA Lake the scaup flock keeps building with groups of 
birds coming and going from McKellar Lake the whole time I was there. I counted 
30+ Greater Scaup and had a sleeping immature SURF SCOTER with an immature 
BLACK SCOTER flying in with a Red-breasted Merganser just at dark. (Still need 
a 
White-winged) A few Mallards were present with some coots and a single 
Pied-billed Grebe. There were 3 Great Egrets and the injured Snowy with about 
25 
Ring-billed Gulls on the back side of the lake. Large numbers of gulls were 
going 
to roost to the south.

At the PITS, I was startled by a group of distant white shorebirds which the 
scope turned into 14 SANDERLINGS. Also present were a couple of thousand Least 
Sandpipers, a big number of Killdeer along with 5 Dunlin, 2 Western, a Lesser 
Yellowlegs with a bad leg and a Pectoral Sandpiper. It was too muddy to get 
back to all the areas to see any other Wind Birds but there seemed to be a huge 
number of Shoveler Ducks as there were continually in the air trading from 
pit to pit.


Good Birding!!!

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


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