Sightings Report April 24 07 Ensley Bottoms Area Memphis Shelby County Location: TN 2 Mem, TE Maxwell Lagoons Observation date: 4/24/07, 1140am-120pm Notes: Longer lunch today to watch the birds. Two Semipalmated Sandpipers kept me busy. Solitary Sandpipers were all along the levees, every 20-30 feet another would flush a couple of feet to give a good look and then return to what it was doing. The 6 Pipits were at the beginning of pond 5 near the levee intersection. They were mixing with a couple of RW Blkbds and some Pects and Yellowlegs. Heavily streaked Breast, slightly pale yellow-orange seen under chin when birds cocked thier heads sideways, dark legs. Number of species: 16 Canada Goose 25 Mallard 5 Blue-winged Teal 60 Semipalmated Plover 3 Killdeer 22 Black-necked Stilt 14 Lesser Yellowlegs X Solitary Sandpiper 26 Semipalmated Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper X Wilson's Snipe 1 Mourning Dove 7 American Pipit 6 Savannah Sparrow 12 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 3 John "Jay" Walko Collierville, Tn =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________