[TN-Bird] Rain Birds

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2011 09:15:19 -0400 (EDT)
April 26, 2011
Ensley Area
Shelby Co. TN
 
Before another deluge, another trip to Ensley. Q. B. Gray and  I had 
surveyed the area Sunday and found a few good birds, good studies on L-b  
Dowitcher, Semipalmated Sandpiper, Stilt Sandpipers among 13 species of  
shorebirds. 
A walk in the trees produced lots of Blue Grosbeaks and Indigos  plus a 
Blue-winged among 8 species of warblers. A pair of Black-bellied  Whistlers 
were seen on Riverport and a Mississippi Kite soared over the golf  course w
hile a single Dickcissel fed on a gravel road along with White-crowned,  
White-t, Song, Swamp, Savannah Sparrows. 
 
After the numerous rain storms filled all the vegetated  pools Tuesday, 
where numbers of shorebirds had been hiding, they had all been  forced out into 
the open water and photos were taken after a Peregrine had  hustled them 
into 2 large wads of nervous nellies. 
 
Numbers and new arrivals; 1328+ Lesser Yellowlegs, 11 L-b  Dowitchers 
(where are the Short-b?), 6 breeding plumaged Wilson's Phalaropes  among the 16 
species of Wind Birds gleaned from the various pools. Numerous  Dickcissels 
and Bobolinks were found plus 2 active Loggerhead Shrike nests and  another 
pair with the male courting and feeding a female. The large flocks of  
Black-bellied Whistling Ducks have broken into mated pairs, small family groups 
 
and are now getting harder to locate. A single Marsh Wren babbled from the 
reeds  in TVA Lake.  
The Mississippi River will rise another 5 feet by Friday and add  all this 
rain, it will soon erase all the other high water records  except for the 
1927 and 1937 floods. Hopefully these records will stand but  things are not 
looking good.
 
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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