Location: TN 2 Mem, Maxson Wastewater Lagoons(The Pits)/Earth Complex Observation date: 5/5/08 Notes: Migration in full swing today at the Pits in the Ensley Bottoms area. Shorebirds a plenty a great diversity and good numbers of birds not seen often. Wilsons Phalaropes good views of and Picts. Blk-necked Stilts in great numbers all over the property in all the waterways. Canada Geese all paired up and sitting on nests or curbing the young chicks in line. Savanna Sparrows still all over the levee's. Solitary Sandpipers along shoreline of every pit. More of them this year than Killdeer. These last couple of storms have really begun moving in the birds.<br>Pictures at http://www.pbase.com/jwalko/may_2008 <http://www.pbase.com/jwalko/may_2008&page=all> &page=all of large amounts of birds are estimates due to the ever moving target, these birds were up and down every couple minutes. Must have been a Raptor around. A Perigrine or two were reported over the weekend by others. Number of species: 25 Canada Goose 40 Mallard 8 Northern Shoveler 2 American Coot 30 Killdeer 27 Black-necked Stilt 80 +/- Spotted Sandpiper 2 Solitary Sandpiper 100 +/- Lesser Yellowlegs 450 +/- Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 Could have been more if they would stay in one place long enough to study and count. Western Sandpiper 3 Least Sandpiper 450 +/- Pectoral Sandpiper 150 +/- Dunlin 5 Stilt Sandpiper 4 Dowitcher 3 (1 on pit #5 with the flocks and 2 on the new drainage pit to the west) Wilson's Phalarope 11 Mourning Dove X Barn Swallow 6 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 20 Savannah Sparrow 25 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 4 Common Grackle 9 John "Jay" Walko Collierville, Tn http://www.pbase.com/jwalko =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________