[TN-Bird] Upland Sandpipers - Peregrine -Ensley Bottoms
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:27:10 EDT
Aug. 9,10 - 2008
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
Hap Chambers came down for the day after finding and photographing a really
nice Reeve at the Phillippy Pits in Lake Co. Friday afternoon. Saturday, the
shorebirds were acting funny, looking up at every vulture and Mississippi
Kite. We had a huge number of Wind Birds in the morning, 5,000+ but after a
Peregrine did its thing the flats were just about wiped clean with the majority
of the birds not returning till after Hap left at 3 PM.
After looking for the Peregrine all morning, we went out to the spread
fields to look for Uplands and here we found a few thousand Least Sandpipers
hiding among the dirt clods. One bird's constant stares led me finally to the
Peregrine, just a dot in the sky. We watched it till it folded up and started a
stoop, this caused all the birds to take to the air and two nearby Uplands to
start calling out from their hiding places in the weeds.
Last week, we had a big push of Western Sandpipers when I had over a hundred
adults, Thursday on a quick trip I saw only one, Saturday and Sunday, try as
we might we could come up with not even one. Within a week or 10 days we
should see the first immature Westerns. My first immature shorebird for the
season was a surprise Semipalmated Sandpiper and we had about a dozen of this
beauties in the flocks the past two days and the first few juvenile fire brand
Least Sandpipers were enjoyed.
The dozen species seen this weekend included good numbers of Semipalmated
Plovers, with Least, Semipalmated and Pectoral Sandpipers, plus 2 Upland
Sandpipers, a single Short-billed Dowitcher with two flybys that appeared to
be
Long-billed but they never set down. Spotted Sandpipers totaled 26 individuals
while Black-necked Stilts were down to single digits. Solitary Sandpipers have
again become solitary or at least not very friendly and only 2 Lesser
Yellowlegs were found on Saturday. Numbers were again pretty high for the
weekend,
except when the Peregrine was tending the flocks. Birds were flying over and
one time 32 Pectorals came over the "pits" but just kept going south. The
next two weeks should be exciting!
The cool weather turned on the Blue Grosbeaks and Song Sparrows as they were
singing like it was spring and molting Horned Larks families were grouping
up into loose flocks.
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
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Bartlett, TN 38135
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