[TN-Bird] Sightings Report, Sunday 17 August 2014, Ensley Bottoms Area, Memphis, Shelby County
- From: John Walko <walko@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Tn-Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Dick Preston <dickpreston@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2014 19:49:22 -0500
After noon run on a hot humid day. Shorebirds are starting to come in in good
numbers every trip down here. Ran into QB Gray who said the MS Kites and a
Peregrine were keeping the wind birds a little edgy and a lot had flown off
from earlier in the day.
Riverport Rd Ponds / Sloughs, Shelby, US-TN
Aug 17, 2014 2:10 PM - 2:35 PM
Protocol: Traveling
1.0 mile(s)
Comments: Getting Hot. Lots of water still in the sloughs unlike recent
years past.
5 species
Wood Duck 10
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 11
Mississippi Kite 10
Least Tern 3
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Allen Fossil (Steam) Plant ash ponds, Shelby, US-TN
Aug 17, 2014 2:35 PM - 2:50 PM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
Comments: Scoping the TVA Ponds.
10 species
Canada Goose 28
Mallard 4
Great Blue Heron 1
Great Egret 1
Killdeer 12
Least Sandpiper 500 Sandbar to the north side of the lake was full of
birds mostly all Least Sandpipers hard to determine other small peeps due to
distance and heat waves.
Pectoral Sandpiper 33 These guys stood out from the rest of the crowd.
Least Tern (Interior) 2 Feeding
Mourning Dove 7
European Starling 8
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Ensley Bottoms, Maxson Wastewater Lagoons(The Pits)/Earth Complex, Shelby, US-TN
Aug 17, 2014 2:50 PM - 4:40 PM
Protocol: Traveling
2.5 mile(s)
Comments: Drove all around the Pits. High water in the center pits being
where the ducks and geese are hanging out all summer. Far North Eastern center
pit with the dead trees was holding a good number of shorebirds and starlings
feeding in the damp muck. some more birds down on pit #4 and Pit# 5 but not in
great numbers.
23 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 61 five seperate broods of young in various
ages, totaling 30 ducklings.
Greater White-fronted Goose 2 Same two Geese all summer long, one still
w/bad wing. Mate hanging in there and won't leave
Canada Goose 10
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 10
Canvasback 1 Same bird sitting with the Black-bellies for the last several
weeks.
Northern Bobwhite 2 Calling
Black Vulture 1
Turkey Vulture 2
Mississippi Kite 4
Killdeer 233 Scores were scattered everywhere.
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Solitary Sandpiper 1
Stilt Sandpiper 1 Interesting coloration hope picts come out.
Least Sandpiper 395 Scattered all over.
Pectoral Sandpiper 323 Good numbers still scattered with Leasts.
Semipalmated Sandpiper 22
Mourning Dove 10
American Kestrel 2
Northern Mockingbird 3
European Starling 750 Easily 750+ feeding and bathing.
House Finch 8 At the maintenance yard fence line.
House Sparrow 6 Maint shed area.
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John "Jay" Walko
Collierville, TN
www.pbase.com/jwalko
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