Oct. 10, 2007 Mississippi River, Ensley Bottoms Shelby Co. TN After two weeks of virtually no river bird traffic, this last front brought down some birds. A short trip revealed a good movement of Pied-billed Grebes with 6 groups floating down with Coots. I counted a total of 64 grebes and 31 coots. I had 3 flyby Ring-billed Gulls and 4 Forster's Terns plus a couple of sterna type terns that got by and were too far to ID. A few Killdeer, Great Blue Herons,?Least and Spotted Sandpipers?plus a single line of DC Cormorants filled out the list?for this short visit. It would have been a good day for a "river sit". With little time, I hurried by the?"pits" and found the large numbers of Least Sandpipers,?little diminished even with the multiple Peregrines seen on recent trips. The front did add Dunlin and Long-billed Dowitchers to the weeks list with the single immature Baird's still present along with Spotted, Pectoral and Lesser Yellowlegs. A partially albino Least that?I have named snowflake is going into it's 4 week staying with the ever growing number of it's brothers and sisters. At TVA, there were a number of Pied-bill Grebes and among the ducks present, the leucistic Mallard, now in his 4th year standing out like a sore thumb,?was hanging with a molting?Pintail male and a few Blue-winged Teal plus a couple of Shovelers. The?DC?Cormorant and Great Egret numbers are down.?? The adult and 2 immature Peregrines,?present this weekend were not seen. The small immature male Peregrine?was banded and?with the scope I was able to get clear photos of the band and numbers. The adult which stayed to itself and the large immature female?that continually chased the small male were unbanded.?When and if I get a report back?I'll post the young male's origin. Jeff R. Wilson Ol'Coot / TLBA Bartlett, TN?? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com =================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/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________