July 23, 2008 Ensley Bottoms Shelby Co. TN On Wednesday, I spent about an hour looking for mom and her charges. Finally, she brought them out of the weeds for a feed and splashing baths. The photos are poor, taken from about a quarter mile away but will be the best until she moves them to a more open area, out of the marsh. The young birds are far more distinctively marked than any of our regularly nesting ducks. The youngsters are hard to count but there are at least 10 maybe even one or two more. The following site updates the Black-bellied Whistling Duck movements and nesting here at the "pits" in Memphis. _http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/blackbellied_whistling_ducks_ (http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/blackbellied_whistling_ducks) A quick trip around for shorebirds revealed the continued jump in numbers of Western Sandpipers. This surge will soon pass to the south making them harder to find among the growing numbers of Semipalmated and Least. Time for another foreign traveler to show up;o) Good Birding !!! Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA 6300 Memphis-Arlington Road Bartlett, TN 38135 http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/ What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the heavens. **************Get fantasy football with free live scoring. Sign up for FanHouse Fantasy Football today. (http://www.fanhouse.com/fantasyaffair?ncid=aolspr00050000000020) =================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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________