[TN-Bird] Buff-Breasted Sandpipers/Ensley Shelby county
- From: oeserscave@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2012 21:02:52 -0400 (EDT)
August 25-26, Riverport Road and Ensley Pits, Shelby county
Heading to T.O. Fuller State Park for camping Saturday evening, I
arrived at the Riverport Road ponds at around 8:30 pm, with enough
light to see several white birds clumped for roosting in the one open
pond visible. I was able to make out the bills of some Wood Storks,
maybe 25, and at least one Great Egret off to the side.
Sunday morning I headed back to the Riverport Road ponds at 6:30,
finding nothing of note. TVA pond held one distant Black-Bellied
Whistling Duck. Driving through the Pits, Black-Necked Stilts were
spread around, while Pectoral and Least Sandpipers were in the large,
upper pit by the high hundreds, accompanied by some molting Starlings
that looked odd out in the middle of the shorebirds. 5 Buff-Breasted
Sandpipers were 20-30 feet from the gravel drive along the edge, making
for some great photo ops. One leucistic Pectoral Sandpiper was close
enough for a photo also. Not sure, but there seemed to be a couple of
Western Sandpipers way out and at the back, and Killdeer were scattered
everywhere.
Along the gravel drive through the back side at the other pits, I found
2 more Buff-Breasted Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Sandpipers, and 4 Lesser
Yellowlegs. More Black-Bellied Whistling Ducks, some with young, and a
number of Wood Ducks, were in the central pits that hold water.
A trip back to the Riverport Road ponds produced 1 Snowy Egret, 3 Great
Egrets, and 2 Wood Storks.
After taking the tent down, a return trip to the pits and TVA lake
produced nothing new for me. Wood Stork was the only new state bird
for me, while I missed out on adding Neotropic Cormorant and Roseate
Spoonbill. Not a bad thing, since I have several reasons to go back
over the years.
Ken Oeser
Hendersonville, TN
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