[TN-Bird] Lift off in Memphis and Wind Birds
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 3 Sep 2006 08:12:49 EDT
Sept. 2, 2006
MS RV, Ensley Bottoms
Memphis, TN
It was a good raptor day in Memphis, starting early with a Cooper's that has
been hanging around my house. On Dacus Bar, my first Harrier for the season
was an adult female being harassed by a family of Kestrels. The Kestrels were
pretty smart, for when an immature eastern, anatum type, Peregrine cleaned
house by sweeping all the shorebirds and terns away, the family affair got
scarce. Black and Least Terns were still present toward the dikes north of the
Peregrine's Playground.
On the way into the pits, along Riverport Road, I discovered an immature
Broad-winged Hawk sitting partially hidden; it sat long enough for a portrait
shot. It kept peering up into the trees and before long it and 12 other
Broad-wings lifted off to kettle up and head south on the breeze out of the
north.
You read about morning "lift offs" seen at hawk watch sites but this was a
first for me here in Memphis. Five more Broad-wings were seen over the pits
and
one mixed kettle over the ridge contained single, Cooper's, Red-shouldered,
Red-tailed and a feisty Kestrel.
A couple of immature Red-tails hung around the pits most of the day and kept
a nervous bunch of Wind Birds scurrying about. An Osprey sat in one of the
cottonwoods across TVA Lake and an adult Cooper's sat up on a snag, glowing
like a firebrand in the sun.
On Dacus Bar in the afternoon, post Peregrine, there were Black-necked
Stilts, the only ones for the day, Sanderling, Spotted, Lesser and Greater
Yellowlegs, Least and Pectoral Sandpipers. At the pits, scanning through the
colorful array of immature birds, I photographed a single Buff-breasted. Others
scattered in the mix were, Semipalmated Plovers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary,
Spotted, Semipalmated, 2 male and a single female Western (all immature),
Least,
Pectoral, a single immature Stilt and the ever present Killdeer. Only 14
species of Wind Birds for the day.
Now back to see what's new..............
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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