[TN-Bird] Storm Birds
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 May 2010 08:19:02 EDT
May 1, 2010
West TN
An early start north was turned back twice by flooded rivers and creeks.
Highway 88 had water rushing over the road and the Obion and Forked Deer were
jumping their banks so Reelfoot area was not accessible. I turned back and
winded my way toward Memphis, back waters held Greater and Lesser
Yellowlegs but almost hidden in flooded grassy fields, no mud flats.
Finally, I got to Ensley Bottoms and the "Pits" and settled in on a high
point and watched as 3 different rain storms strolled through on their way
to flood Memphis over the next 4 hours. The best bird flew by between storms
as a BLACK-BELLIED WHISTLER headed north up the ridge.
In heavy periods of rain a lot of shorebirds leave the flats and group up
on the gravel roads and in grassy fields so they avoid being splashed with
the almost cementatious mud mix at the Pits. In the fields were good numbers
of Wind Birds, Lesser Yellowlegs, Pecs and a single male Wilson's
Phalarope and I'm sure Least and Semipalms were hiding down in the long grass.
High numbers for the vigil were: the resident Killdeer, 4 -Semipalmated
Plovers, 6 -Black-necked Stilt, 2 -Greater Yellowlegs, 45 -Lesser Yellowlegs,
38 -Solitary Sandpipers, 5 -Spotted Sandpipers, 9 -Semipalmated
Sandpipers, 1 -first of season Western Sandpiper, 490+ Least Sandpiper, 112
Pectoral
Sandpipers (45 in one flight), 2 -Dunlin, 2 -Stilt Sandpiper, 1 L-b
Dowitcher, 49 -WILSON'S PHALAROPE in about even mix of males and females
today..............15 Wind Bird Species.
Even in the heavy rain, Chimney Swifts and 5 species of swallows still
sliced through the drenching downpours.
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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