Location: TN 2 Mem, Riverport Rd Ponds / Swamp Observation date: 9/10/07 Notes: Egrets were scattered all over the Riverport Rd area. Ran into Kathy Holder further down by the Pits and she said she had been about 45 min ahead of me and had seen two Wood Storks with a large number of Egrets but all spooked and scattered all over the area. Number of species: 7 Mallard 14 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 126 Killdeer 7 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 100 Mourning Dove 6 Location: TN 2 Mem, Maxson Wastewater Lagoons(The Pits)/Earth Complex Observation date: 9/10/07 Notes: Yesterdays storms ended up dumping an enormous amount of birds into the pits 2000+ least Sandpipers. Could be some others but they were off in the distance on the back side of pond #4. Only looked at Pond #5 (the big lagoon) from the intersection pt between the ponds. Back corner of the big lagoon could be holding birds also. Buff-breasted were seen in the weeds along one of the levee rds leading west away from the big lagoons. They were in the weeds/on the rd with about a dozen Killdeer when my car flushed them out to the top of the fresh dirt piles. Have pictures if needed for ID. Number of species: 6 Semipalmated Plover 2 Killdeer 27 Least Sandpiper 2000 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 3 http://www.pbase.com/jwalko/birds_this_week Mourning Dove 50 European Starling 1000 Location: TN 2 Mem,TVA PONDS Observation date: 9/10/07 Notes: Same birds sitting in the pond numbers are changing as more come and go. Number of species: 8 Mallard 100 Double-crested Cormorant 87 Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 13 Killdeer 3 Least Sandpiper 21 Ring-billed Gull 14 Mourning Dove 7 John "Jay" Walko Collierville, Tn http://www.pbase.com/jwalko =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________