[TN-Bird] Sho-Birds and shorebirds - Ensley
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2004 00:19:05 EDT
Sept. 25, 2004
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
Today was an almost perfect day to view the ton of "Wind Birds" at Ensley.
Cloudy skies, cool temps and birds everywhere. Today, I totaled a fantastic, 18
species during a 4 hour stint this morning and another 3 hours this afternoon
with a trip to President's Island and the Mississippi River in between.
Sitting down and slowly going through the thousands of Least Sandpipers
produced a few single birds that pushed the total up. Almost the first bird I
saw
after I arrived was a neat Buff-breasted Sandpiper that had black leggings on
and pranced around like a dancer at practice. A single Solitary still hangs out
on its special log and one Baird's Sandpiper pick fed in one area all day. An
adult winter plumaged Ruddy Turnstone, a heavily molted White-rumped
Sandpiper, a molting juvenile Red-necked Phalarope that slept all morning, a
lone
Wilson's Snipe, sure made for a great day of Wind Birds. In the morning I had
only
one immature Black-necked Stilt but in the afternoon a family of 3 showed up
along with 2 Greater Yellowlegs on TVA Lake. Two immature Short-billed
Dowitchers fed and slept away the day in one spot and there were only 3
Semipalmated
Plovers in the mix.
There were over a hundred Stilt Sandpipers and almost 200 Lesser Yellowlegs
with Pectoral Sandpipers numbers in between. Western Sandpipers still out
number the Semipalmated Sandpipers but their numbers are up from last week.
Looking through all these birds as always produced a few in odd enough
shapes, sizes and coloration to keep you busy scratching your head and always
learning.............Love it when it is like this.
A Merlin and a few Broad-wings kept the birds looking up all morning but an
immature tundrius Peregrine got everyone in the air and kept them there for a
long time as the immature bird missed time and time again. The resident
kestrels and the Osprey added to the Red-shouldered and Red-tailed Hawks made
for a
pretty nice raptor day.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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