Sept. 6, 2004 Ensley Bottoms Eagle Lake Refuge Shelby Co. TN A return to Ensley on Monday revealed very little movement and all the species present on Sunday were feeding away. The Wilson's Phalarope still moves around a lot and can be hard to find but the Baird's Sandpipers stayed concentrated in one pool with a couple feeding as loners in two other locations. I checked for the Mottled Duck a few times in the morning but the bird did not appear among the numerous Mallards. An Osprey hunted over McKellar and the TVA Lake. A single Broad-winged Hawk passed over heading south and the immature Cooper's raise the wind birds twice as it traded across the pits. At Eagle Lake Refuge there were a couple of wet areas that a few shorebirds used and pair of birds not seen at Ensley over the weekend. These areas of marginal benefit to shorebirds produced a molting adult American Golden-Plover and an immature Long-billed Dowitcher. Just imagine what could be seen here if the area was actually managed for shorebirds. Also present were: a single Semipalmated Plover, many Killdeer, Black-necked Stilts, 24 Lesser Yellowlegs, which tolerate the higher vegetation, 2 Solitary Sandpipers, feeding on the only two small flats of mud were 3 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Western, 64 Least and 10 Stilt Sandpipers. Feeding in the dense sesbania were 2 Great Blue Herons, 31 Great Egrets, 11 immature Snowy and 9 Little Blue immatures with 2 adults. Good Birding!!! Jeff R. Wilson OL'COOT / TLBA Bartlett, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================