Riverport Rd Ponds / Sloughs, Shelby, Tennessee, US
May 12, 2019 10:35 AM - 11:15 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.2 mile(s)
Comments: 59* and overcast
17 species
Canada Goose 9
Wood Duck 13 2 ducklings in tow.
Mallard 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 4
Mourning Dove 12
American Coot 1
Great Blue Heron 1
Green Heron 2
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 1
Turkey Vulture 1
Eastern Kingbird 2
Blue Jay 1
Eastern Bluebird 2
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Brown-headed Cowbird 7
Common Grackle 1
Dickcissel 1
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Ensley Bottoms--TVA Lake/Allen Fossil (Steam) Plant Ash Ponds, Shelby,
Tennessee, US
May 12, 2019 11:15 AM - 1:10 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: 58* and rising, cloudy overcast. TVA Lakes and a run down to
Bunting Corner of the area. Bobolinks in great numbers along with a good number
of Eastern Kingbirds.
Met Virginia Reynolds on exit of the Bunting Corner area, Bobolinks making a
good swarming show going from field area to field area on the hillsides.
27 species
Mourning Dove 7
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Killdeer 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Western Kingbird 2
Eastern Kingbird 25 25+ birds all down below the levee in a reddy area
feeding on something.
American Crow 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 15
Barn Swallow 12
Carolina Wren 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 6
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Bobolink 200 200+ birds in the tall grassy areas about the levee as you go
down the hill into Bunting corner.
Eastern Meadowlark 3
Orchard Oriole 1
Baltimore Oriole 4
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Common Grackle 2
Northern Cardinal 2
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 7
Dickcissel 9
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Ensley Bottoms, Maxson Wastewater Lagoons(The Pits)/Earth Complex, Shelby,
Tennessee, US
May 12, 2019 1:10 PM - 4:25 PM
Protocol: Traveling
6.8 mile(s)
Comments: 60* and rising cloudy Overcast. Met Pullen Watkins while in the
area. Birded with him for an hour or so (2 mile walk) back end of complex where
the levees were a bit to wet for vehicles.
13 species of Shorebirds which were few and far between each other. Numbers way
way down from last week.
51 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 57
Canada Goose 37
Wood Duck 3
Blue-winged Teal 14
Mallard 7
Mourning Dove 15
Sora 1 seen in the small reedy wet area at the trail junction of the main
gravel roads.
Black-necked Stilt 26
Semipalmated Plover 1
Killdeer 8
Stilt Sandpiper 4
Least Sandpiper 38
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Western Sandpiper 1
Wilson's Phalarope 1
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Solitary Sandpiper 5
Greater Yellowlegs 3
Lesser Yellowlegs 6
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 5
Green Heron 1
Red-tailed Hawk 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 1
Eastern Kingbird 19
White-eyed Vireo 3
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Northern Rough-winged Swallow 25
Purple Martin 2
Barn Swallow 42
Cliff Swallow 7
Tufted Titmouse 3
Brown Thrasher 1
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 30
Savannah Sparrow 9
Yellow-breasted Chat 1
Bobolink 52 Some of the levees had good numbers at the southend of the
complex
Eastern Meadowlark 3
Orchard Oriole 1 Juvenile
Baltimore Oriole 1
Red-winged Blackbird 50
Brown-headed Cowbird 1
Common Grackle 3
Prothonotary Warbler 1
Yellow Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 3
Blue Grosbeak 3
Indigo Bunting 21
Dickcissel 50 These were spreadout all over the complex singing, Lots of
noise when they were in the same area as the Bobolinks.
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John "Jay" Walko
Collierville, TN
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