[TN-Bird] Ensley Bottoms - Red Knot yes

From: Chuck Lola Estes <chucklola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 16:45:35 -0500
Ensley Bottoms Complex
> Shelby County
> Sept. 3, 2015
> 9:00am - 11:30am
> 
> Great morning at Ensley Bottoms sewage treatment facility.  Visiting my 
> mother-in-law in Memphis with a morning for birding.  The vast majority of 
> the shorebirds were in the same pits (two ponds furtherest west on the north 
> side of the central road) described by Michael Todd and Jay Walko yesterday.  
> The juvenile Red Knot was in the second pond from the west end hanging with 
> some Lesser Yellowlegs.  The same general numbers and species described by 
> Michael and Jay were present except for no American Avocet and no 
> Buff-breasted Sandpiper.  I did find a Wilson's Phalarope in winter plumage 
> (also hanging with some Lesser Yellowlegs) to add to Michael's impressive 
> list.  I saw it twice; once in one of the small central ponds north of the 
> central dike road and in one of the ponds on the southeast side of the 
> complex.  Also, had close looks at a couple of Baird's Sandpipers.  
> Mercifully it was mostly cloudy this morning.  The flies are relentless so 
> bring your bug dope and lots of patience to filter through the many Least 
> Sandpipers and starlings.  It took several miles to blow all the flies out of 
> the car.  Having now birded Rankin Bottoms on Monday and Ensley Bottoms on 
> Wednesday, I am sure I will be seeing shorebirds in my dreams tonight.  I 
> just hope my scope works.
> 
> Chuck Estes
> Oak Ridge, TN
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