[TN-Bird] Black-b Whistlers and Wind Birds

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 8 Apr 2011 07:39:40 -0400 (EDT)
April 7, 2011
SW Shelby Co. TN
 
A total of 18 Black-bellied Whistling Ducks were found in 2  locations 
Thursday, 13 on a private pond off of Weaver Road and 5 in the Horn  Lake 
Cutoff. 
 
With stiff south winds in play, I spent 4 hours, off and  on, sifting and 
sorting  through the Wind Bird parade at the "Pits"  finding; Killdeer in 
breeding dance groups, 3 scrapes and 2 nests with eggs, 27  flyby American 
Golden-Plovers, 3 pr of Black-n Stilts,  2 Spotted "bobbing"  Sandpipers, 11 
Solitary Sandpipers, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, 44 Lesser Yellowlegs,  2 Sanderling, 
5 Semipalmated Sandpipers, 1 Western, 73 Least, 1 Baird's, 116  Pectoral, 6 
Dunlin,  2 Stilt Sandpipers, and 26 Wilson's Snipe. A nice  collection, 
with first of season, harbingers and hints of things to  come.
 
The shorebirds were coming, going, resting and feeding in  habitat also in 
a state of flux but making do with what was available. SSW winds  and good 
weather should make for interesting migrant passing's this  weekend.  
At Robco Lake, the Red-necked Grebe was not seen but the Common Loon  
continues to snorkel, and 3 Red-breasted Mergansers have joined the thinning  
numbers of waterfowl plus a large group of DC Cormorants and Ring-billed Gulls  
will keep you busy looking for the odd ball.
 
 
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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