[TN-Bird] Sightings Report, 5 Sept, Fish Ponds Limerick & Little Texas Rds, South of Tunica

From: John Walko <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tn-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 2010 07:43:04 -0500
Went down to the fish ponds south of Tunica Sunday afternoon. Limerick was full 
of water with GBHerons feeding, One bird had a catfish which looked like it 
would feed him for a week if he could figure how to get it off his beak since 
speared it, and then somehow swallow the thing.

Little Texas had all the white birds, I stayed on the rds and didn't travel on 
the internal levees. Two ponds were drawn down to almost dry had the shorebirds 
and a good grouping of all the Little Blues and a lot of Great Egrets fishing 
for left over minnows stranded in the pools. 

One bird not reported below at Little Texas I could not get a real good ID on 
was about 200yds away on the southern end empty pond, looked like a Ruddy 
Turnstone, but the heat waves through the scope forbid a good ID. Along with 
the Least Sandpipers there could have been some other peeps but they were just 
as far away.

Limerick Rd ponds:
Turkey Vultures - 33
Great Blue Herons - 37
DC Cormorant - 3
Morning Doves - a bunch
Killdeer - 18
Starlings

Little Texas Rd Ponds:
Great Egrets: 150 +
Little Blue Herons(white) - 30
Great Blue Heron - 12
DC Cormorant - 14
Least Sandpiper - 100+
Sanderling - 2
Killdeer - 50+
Semipalmated Plover - 3
Least Tern - 14




John "Jay" Walko
Collierville, TN
www.pbase.com/jwalko



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