[TN-Bird] Sightings Report, May 14, 2008, Stiles Wastewater Treatment Plant, Memphis, Shelby Co, American Avocet

Location:     TN, Stiles Wastewater Treatment Plant
Observation date:     5/14/08

Notes:     Early afternoon break at the North Treatment Plant. Storm front
began to come through last night and some birds came down. Am Avocet the big
bird of the day in full breeding plumage.

http://www.pbase.com/jwalko/may14

Close to a hundred Blk-necked Stilts either up on the pits near the nests or
happily feeding down below in the once flooded pot hole fields,Savannah
Sparrows still fleeing in the high grass along the levee roads. Pot holes
loaded with Shore birds feeding, bathing and preening. Dickcissel still
singing away in the swaying grass alongside all the RW Blackbirds. What will
the storm front bring in tonight to both treatment plants?

Number of species:     21

Canada Goose     3

Mallard     3

Semipalmated Plover     2

Killdeer     11

Black-necked Stilt     95

American Avocet     1

Spotted Sandpiper     5

Solitary Sandpiper     2

Lesser Yellowlegs     45

Least Sandpiper     200

White-rumped Sandpiper     12

Pectoral Sandpiper     9

Dunlin     3

Stilt Sandpiper     6

Rock Pigeon     4

Mourning Dove     5

Barn Swallow     7

American Robin     2

Savannah Sparrow     7

Dickcissel     7

Red-winged Blackbird     X

 

 

John "Jay" Walko

Collierville, Tn

http://www.pbase.com/jwalko

 



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