I missed Saturdays visit down at the Pits, with MTOS.
Seems like there was a huge crowd yesterday with the Reelfoot to Memphis trip
going also.
Here’s todays count.
Riverport Rd Ponds / Sloughs, Shelby, Tennessee, US
Sep 2, 2018 9:25 AM - 9:55 AM
Protocol: Traveling
4.6 mile(s)
Comments: Clear, 85+ degs and warming, All ponds and lagoons filled with
Duckweed.
10 species
Wood Duck 58
Mallard 2
Rock Pigeon (Feral Pigeon) 13
Killdeer 4
Great Egret 2
Green Heron 10
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
European Starling 6
Common Grackle 2
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48254697 ;
<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48254697>
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org ;
<http://ebird.org/>)
Ensley Bottoms--TVA Lake/Allen Fossil (Steam) Plant Ash Ponds, Shelby,
Tennessee, US
Sep 2, 2018 9:55 AM - 10:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
0.25 mile(s)
Comments: Clear, temp rising. 85+
7 species
Canada Goose 23
Killdeer 5
Double-crested Cormorant 2
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 3
Green Heron 2
Mississippi Kite 1
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48254792 ;
<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48254792>
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org ;
<http://ebird.org/>)
Ensley Bottoms, Maxson Wastewater Lagoons(The Pits)/Earth Complex, Shelby,
Tennessee, US
Sep 2, 2018 10:05 AM - 12:30 PM
Protocol: Traveling
7.1 mile(s)
Comments: Clear, no breeze, 90 degs and rising Flies, Flies Flies, I still
have them in the car. Lots of grasshoppers on some of the levees, Dragon Flies
every where, but the Ms Kites were all but gone, only two were seen.
23 species
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck 149 Mostly in two big groups, some over in
the west spread fields where alot of rainwater has accumulated and the rest in
the center pits area on one of the levees.
Canada Goose 36
Wood Duck 1
Blue-winged Teal 13
Northern Shoveler 16
Mallard 37
Mourning Dove 6
Black-necked Stilt 3 Should be more somewhere with young still in tow.
Semipalmated Plover 2
Killdeer 37
Least Sandpiper 264
Pectoral Sandpiper 125
Semipalmated Sandpiper 8
Solitary Sandpiper 3
Greater Yellowlegs 4
Lesser Yellowlegs 58
Great Blue Heron 1
Little Blue Heron 25 Scattered about, 2 adults
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron 6
White Ibis 114 Continueing birds last couple weeks, Pit number five(far SE
corner) had at one time 83 birds feeding along the south most levee, other
birds seen in the finger ponds and elsewhere in the complex. Three adults seen.
Mississippi Kite 2 Where they all go, earlier this week there were a
couple dozen?
Peregrine Falcon 1 So much for counting shorebirds scattered everything
several times.
European Starling 274
View this checklist online at https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48255199 ;
<https://ebird.org/view/checklist/S48255199>
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org ;
<http://ebird.org/>)
John "Jay" Walko
Collierville, TN
www.pbase.com/jwalko
