Aug, 4 -2007 Mississippi River Ensley Bottoms Shelby Co. TN As most of you know, I like shorebirds;o) but for some reason I really like immature plumaged Semipalmated Sandpipers and today they arrived. Last week the spiffy Least Sandpipers turned up and even more of that colorfull clan were present today but my smooth Semi's took my eye and were tops in the numbers game. I also saw my first immature Solitary Sandpiper this morning. Did not see the Peregrine today but there was another villan, an immature Cooper's Hawk that past through the pits hugging the land and scattering everybody. After the 5th pass 90% of the shorebirds flew clean out to the river and two hours later not more than 200 had returned. While waiting their return, 56 White Pelicans soared up the river and Red-tailed Hawks plus a bunch of Mississippi Kites circled for my pleasure. No Lesser Yellowlegs today, that I saw but they may have left on the first Cooper's run, before I had made it around. There was nothing new other than the immature birds. As I was leaving I ran into Gail King and we did a quick tour to find the immatures in the mix. While we were looking at these beauties everyone left again and right over our head circled the immature Cooper's. I guess he had decided stealth did not pay on these sharp-eyed, fast Wind Birds! We traveled down to the river front and were treated to some real nice birds. Gail had mentioned earlier she need a Ruddy Turnstone for her Shelby Co, list and right off the bat, there was one sitting on the end of a rock jetty. It was exactly where a few hund out for a few days last year at this time. We found, Black-necked Stilts, Greater Yellowlegs, Least, Pectoral and Killdeer plus a ton of adult and immature Least Terns. Seven Black Terns and 6 Forster's Terns were frosting and icing on the cake. Jeff R. Wilson - TLBA Ol'Coot Memphis, TN ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at 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 _____________________________________________________________