[TN-Bird] Sabine's adult - 30+ Wood Storks - Memphis

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:03:03 EDT
Sept. 13, 2009
MS RV- TVA Lake
Ensley, Mud lake
Shelby Co. TN
 
Over 2 hours spent in the rain, watching the Mississippi River paid off  
again. A single Caspian Tern, 22 Forster's Terns in one flock moving down 
river,  2 large flights of DC Cormorants plus a flotilla of 18 DCs just 
floating 
south  would make a pretty fair morning but............A small, slim, 
elongated,  dark, black headed gull was perched up on the rock dike on the 
north 
end of  the Loosahatchie Bar. I was pretty sure what it was but when it 
preened all  doubt faded as the distinct wing pattern said it all. This makes 3 
straight  years the Mississippi has produced a Sabine's  Gull for me.
 
At TVA Lake, the 2 Lesser Yellowlegs were still present but 3 of the  
fattest Semipalmated Plovers I've ever seen were running around like tennis  
balls on the far flats. A Osprey did lazy doodles over the lake and a single  
Caspian Tern looked like a 747 compared to the 2 Least Terns still hanging  
around. Still just one Pectoral, a few Semipalmated Sandpipers and a few 
hundred  Least for the lowest tally I've ever had in September at the "Pits". 
The 
 Buff-breasted nor the Upland found on Friday could be found over the  
weekend.
 
Mud Lake held the big birds for the day, evidently all the Wood Storks  
decided to dry out in the cypress tops after the rain. I counted 37  birds in 
one sweep but there were birds moving around all the while. Some  of the 
birds had moved out to the middle area of the lake so I got better photos  
today. No Whistlers were seen in TN but I had 8 in Mississippi.  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.



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