[TN-Bird] River Run and Treatment Plants

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 08:10:40 -0400 (EDT)
April 28, 2011
Mississippi River
North Treatment Plant
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
 
A early river watch produced few birds over an angry,  ominously silent 
rush of water. Two Herring Gulls, joined by a Common Tern; they  would ride the 
fast flow down and then fly back up river and catch another ride.  Only one 
group of 9 DC Cormorants looked small heading north, low over the muddy  
Mississippi.
 
At the North Treatment Plant, few solid areas with combative  Black-necked 
Stilts adding to active nests and a few pairs still getting it on.  Only 10 
Wind Bird species but still White-c and White-t Sparrows and also 2  
Lincoln's with lots of Savannah's, Swamp and Song. Indigo,Blue Grosbeak,  
Bobolink 
and Dickcissel foraged at rivers edge.
 
On the way back south, the Pyramid Western Kingbird was my  first of season.
 
The best bird was a 3 toned, brown, black and white, molting  and late Ruff 
(now over 20 for area) feeding with a group of Long-b Dowitchers.  Stunning 
female Wilson's Phalaropes with 2 dowdy males were joined by; Killdeer,  
Semipalmated Plover, 9 Spotted Sandpipers, gobs of Solitary Sandpipers, Lesser 
 and a single Greater Yellowlegs, Semi-sands, a single Western, Least,  
Pectoral, Dunlin starting to sport red-backs, Stilts just starting to bloom, 
and  Wilson's Snipe.
 
A small but persistent Peregrine stirred the birds starting  around noon 
and a steady stream of migrating raptors kept the Wind Birds on full  alert. 
Dickcissels, Bobolink and again White-c Sparrows represented arriving  
residents, passing and late migrants.   

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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