[TN-Bird] Whistling Ducks and Wind Birds - Ensley
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 22:59:42 EDT
July 20-21, 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co, TN
The female Black-bellied Whistling Duck was seen Sunday afternoon by David
Kirschke and I, as she was brooding her young and both adults were seen on
Monday with young in tow. Everything looks good for now but I'm trying to stay
as far away as possible so as not to move the family. Photos, at a distance
with the heat waves, are impossible at this time.
David and I had great, up close looks at male and female Western Sandpipers
that have moved in the past few days. Sunday afternoon, I counted 27
Westerns among the large numbers of Least, Semipalmated and Pectoral
Sandpipers. We
also had a great diversity of Semipalmated Sandpiper plumage colors,
everything from pale to dark. A few even had scattered replaced basic feathers
on
their mantles. Unlike, the Westerns which have dropped most of their mantle
and
scaps feathering, the Semi's will put off molting till on their wintering
grounds outside the U.S. One Western had replaced nearly 80% of its feathers
and looked like a gray ghost, while a pale gray Semi was still in full
alternate. Each passing day brings new Wind Bird wonders.
Mississippi Kites on Sunday at Ensley, appeared to be few in number until
you scanned high in the sky where you found many hiding and up there the big
swirling flocks of hundreds of Chimney Swifts go undetected. Painted Buntings
are still singing but harder to see.
In Frayser, the hybrid female and the Western Kingbird male, were busy
feeding 3 fledged youngsters Sunday morning.
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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