[TN-Bird] Too much of a good thing!! Ensley Bottoms

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 08:16:25 EDT
April 16, 2007
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
No. Mississippi
Just inside state line
DeSoto Co. MS
 
Well, Mom always said you could have too much of a good thing and this  
weekend 2 storm fronts, cold wet weather, high winds produced great numbers of  
Wind Birds. We had 18 species of shorebirds adding Golden-Plover and Upland  
Sandpiper on Sunday to Saturdays list. We also had first time visitors both  
days, 
with Ed Conrad from Jackson on Saturday braving the cold wind and rain  with 
me, then Bob Ingle from Murfreesboro early Sunday and the Riley's from  
Memphis and the Harboldts from Madison Co. later braving a stiff cool  wind but 
at 
least in sunshine.
 
The GOOD thing we had too much of was a Peregrine Falcon, which you have to  
really enjoy, but with 4 visits and wonderful aerial displays, it drove 
hundreds  of shorebirds to continue their journey north rather than becoming 
Peregrine  fodder and leaving just a remnant of the huge flocks covering the 
flats 
(and I  mean covering) that Ed Conrad and I enjoyed on Saturday.
 
Good birds were still to be found Sunday as a single Golden-Plover dropped  
in early for Bob Ingle and I and close up views of one of the Baird's  
Sandpipers, a couple of Stilt Sandpipers and a Long-billed Dowitcher that  was 
left 
over from the flocks the Peregrine drove off on one of its forays  Saturday. I 
had 20 more Golden-Plovers in north MS. 
 
In the afternoon, I ran into Bob Foehring and he was looking for a Lifer  
Upland Plover so we went just down the road into MS and had super close looks 
at  
6 birds parading in cotton stubble. We also found TWO pair of Horned Larks  
feeding fledged Young! evidently they started pretty early during the warm 
spell  but it still seemed Very early. There were still a few American Pipits 
in 
the  same field.
 
Back at the pits, I was able to get almost everyone on, the Dunlin, Stilt  
Sandpipers, Semipalmated Sandpipers, Long-billed Dowitcher and Wilson's  
Phalarope, among the diminishing numbers of Wind Birds. In the late afternoon, 
a  
pair of Black-necked Stilts had to check us out and gave us stunningly  close 
looks at their blood red eyes in the scope, a fine way to  end the day. Also, I 
had my FOS Cliff Swallows at Robco Lake on Sunday.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135

What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the  heavens.




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