[TN-Bird] River watch and Ensley Bottoms Weekend
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 08:38:40 EDT
Oct. 18-19, 2008
Mississippi River
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
Saturday, brought down a few new birds on the river, most noticeable were
the Gadwall which suddenly appeared in numbers on both the river and TVA Lake
at
Ensley. Still more and more Ruddy Ducks, Coots and Pied-billed floating
south with fewer and fewer Great Egrets and swallows. A single Lesser Scaup
floated with one bunch of Ruddy Ducks. Big numbers of southward bound DC
Cormorants were expected and I was not disappointed with big early flights
both days.
I got more photos of the "Lord of Dacus" perched on one of its favorite
perches. This Peregrine pretty much keeps the sandbars clean when present.
The weekend birds at Ensley were stirred by Osprey, Kestrel, Red-tails,
Cooper's and Peregrine on Saturday and Osprey, Kestrel, Red-tails, and a male
Merlin on Sunday. Still thousands of Least Sandpipers with the following high
numbers of: Killdeer, Semipalmated Plover (immature molting present since
Tuesday), Greater Yellowlegs ( Saturday, they have been scarce this year),
Lesser
Yellowlegs 9, Sanderling 1 (Saturday) , Least, Western Sandpiper 6 ( all in
basic plumage), Pectoral 1 (Sunday an immature), Dunlin 7, Stilt Sandpiper 1
( Sunday molted immature), and Wilson's Snipe 3. Twelve Wind Bird species
(counting Eagle Lake Baird's) was not a bad weekend total.
I photographed a mixed calurus/borealis Red-tail, a calurus light morph and
a rare light morph Harlan's at Ensley this weekend. The Red-tails are
moving.......... Keep looking UP!
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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