[TN-Bird] Fwd: Neotropic Cormorant TVA Lake Shelby Co. Sunday 19th
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- Date: Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:18:25 -0400 (EDT)
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Subject: Neotropic Cormorant TVA Lake Shelby Co. Sunday 19th
A NEOTROPIC CORMORANT Jeff Wilson found and photographed this afternoon was
still on TVA Lake, near the Allen Steam Plant in Memphis, when I left at 4:00
p.m. It is a very small individual, about the same size as nearby Black-bellied
Whistling Ducks, and half that of the Double-crested Cormorants. We watched it
preen, then leave the shoreline opposite the road and railroad tracks along the
lake, swim and dive some, then return to the shoreline to preen some more and
sleep. 7 Double-cresteds were present as well.
A congregation of waders continues in the largest borrow pit with water along
Riverport Road. I didn't find a Tricolored Heron, but there are scads of Great
Egrets, many snowies and Little Blue Herons, 15 or so Great Blues; no ibis
today.
Jeff reported he found fifteen species of shorebirds at the pits, most notably
Baird's and Buff-breasted Sandpipers among the thousands, scattered wherever
water remains.
Gail King
5595 Ashley Sq. N.
Memphis, TN 38120
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