[TN-Bird] Shorebird Passage and ducks - Memphis

May 23-24-25-26, 2009
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
The ebb and flow of migration brings changes every day with the numbers of  
Semipalmated Sandpipers fluctuating but steadily downward while the  
White-rumped number rises. Other characters are mostly late and lingering the  
past few days, like the occasional Lesser Yellowlegs, a single injured Solitary 
 Sandpiper,  3 Semipalmated Plovers (sweet), now only a single full dress  
Dunlin, and 3 Spotted Sandpipers (maybe another possible nesting in the 
works),  some days you can't find a Least but they are always somewhere and the 
most  unexpected Wind Bird, a single Pectoral Sandpiper on Sunday and 
Monday. Of  course Black-necked Stilt and Killdeer are nesting everywhere. 
 
Just four more weeks and we will be greeting the first returns of  these 
northern nesters.............
 
Lingering and some possible nesters like the Black-bellied Whistling Ducks, 
 Shovelers, Blue-winged Teal and just summer vacationers like the 4 Lesser 
Scaup  and 3 Ruddy Ducks which are mixed in with lots of Mallards tending 
broods along  with baby Wood Ducks and Hooded Mergansers.
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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