[TN-Bird] Shelby Co. Birding

  • From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
  • To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 14 May 2011 22:55:03 -0400 (EDT)

Spent part of 2 days graduating last  2 Grandsons!
 
 
May 14, 2011 PM
 
Checking locations for nests and birds of  interest;
 
North Memphis:
Western Kingbirds, Painted Buntings, Cliff, Barn, Rough-wing,  Tree and 
Bank Swallows, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Loggerhead  Shrikes.
 
Mississippi River:
Least Terns-2
 
President's Island:
Western Kingbirds 3 locations including hybrid  plus Scissortailed 
Flycatcher male only, immature Bald Eagles, Olive-sided  FC, Least Tern, Common 
Nighthawk
 
TVA Lake:
White Pelican, DC Cormorant
 
Riverport Road: 
female Anhinga, Least Bittern
 
Ensley Bottoms:
Shorebirds -16 species:  Semipalmated Plovers, Killdeer,  plus First of 
Season- just hatched Black-necked Stilts, Spotted Sandpipers, Solitary 
Sandpipers,Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated  Sandpipers, Least Sandpipers, 
White-rumped Sandpipers, 1-BAIRD'S SANDPIPER,  Pectoral Sandpipers, Dunlins, 
Stilt 
Sandpipers, SHORT-BILLED DOWICHERS, Wilson's  Snipe, and a single male, 
Wilson's Phalarope. black-bellied Whistlers, Mallards,  Blue-winged Teal 2 pair 
Shovelers. Four active Loggerhead Shrike nests. Little  Blue and Snowy Egrets. 
Still White-c and White-t Sparrows present.   

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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