[TN-Bird] Re: Pits at Ensley Bottoms, American Avocet X 2
- From: Lyda Phillips <lydap@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2013 19:43:37 -0500
Made my first trip to Ensley Bottoms today. Was on both sides of Riverport Road
for about two hours this afternoon. I will hit President's Island, Mud Island
and maybe Shelby Forest tomorrow. I grew up in Memphis and learned to drive
hauling my birder parents around president's island, where they would lean out
the window with binoculars and shout "STOP" every few feet. I am really looking
forward to that trip down Memory Lane. I haven't been back there since high
school.
Saw the Avocet, just one, in the same pond everyone else has mentioned with the
Black=necked stilts and the Black-bellied whistling ducks. Same drill with the
Red=tail flyover scattering the little 'uns. It was late afternoon, back lit
and I am not good with peeps, but I ID'd Pectoral sandpipers and western
sandpipers from the flash of white. I thought I saw a Greater Yellowlegs, but
can't be sure.
On the TVA lake I saw 8 Caspian Terns on a sand/mud bar along with:
Great-Blue Heron 2
Black-necked stilt 2 adult, 2 juvenile
Canada geese 31
starlings, too many to count
Turkey vulture 4
Snowy egret 2
Great egret 1
Black vulture 1
Cattle egret 1
DC cormorant J 1
Kildeer 6
Mourning dove 1
Red-tailed hawk 1
Lyda Phillips
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(301) 518-7538 (cell)
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> From: walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Pits at Ensley Bottoms, American Avocet X 2
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2013 13:21:05 -0500
> To: walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Several thousand shorebirds down at the pits (pit 4 has the biggest
> concentration good looks from the north levee) as I write this. Saturday's
> Avocet is still in the central Blkbelly whs. duck area with a couple of Blknk
> stilts. 54 Blk Bellie wh ducks this afternoon w some young tagging along.
> Scope is a must today with overcast and 84 degs.
>
> Second Avocet found on pit 4 adult very curved beak still has some tan on
> neck.
> 1 Wilsons Phalarope, 2 Bairds SP. Thousands of least SP, mix up of Pects,
> semipalmated westerns, Stilt SP, several Spotted and Solitary in the mix.
> Couple hundred Killdeer and a hoard of starlings.
>
> Flies are the worst I've seen in years.
>
> Complet sightings report this eve to be posted.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:09 PM, John Walko <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Young Avocet is feeding along with a mix of nervous shorebirds in the
> > central area where the Blkbellies are usually. 16 adult Blkbellied Whis
> > Ducks, only two ducklings, Fulvous also present. Local Redtail is
> > scattering the nervous nellies on flyovers. Water is drying up fast
> > everywhere down here.
> >
> > Sent from my iPad
> >
> > On Aug 31, 2013, at 12:02 PM, martha waldron <martha.waldron@xxxxxxxxx>
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Jay Walko called from the "PITS". He is still there and plans to continue
> >> to bird. He has an Avocet in the BIG lagoon. Using the map in the MTOS
> >> Directory, the BIG lagoon is known as number 5 in section E5.
> >>
> >> If you do not go today please report whether or not you see the Avocet to
> >> Virginia Reynolds or Martha Waldron. We would like to be able to relate
> >> this information if requested.
> >>
> >> Good Luck.
> >>
> >> Martha
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