[TN-Bird] TN NWR - Duck River Unit
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- Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 19:48:10 -0500
TN NWR
Duck River Unit
Duck River mudflats
Humphreys County
09/03/13
One American avocet in non-breeding plumage on the recently exposed
mudflats, feeding near 18 N. shovelers. Numerours other shorebirds present
but looong distance and heat waves made ID a challenge. I did for sure see
least sandpipers, pectoral sandpipers, and semiplamated plovers which I
kept wanting to make one out into a piping plover as it appeared lighter
than the others. Dozens of black-bellied/ golden plovers. The white
seperation line was all that I could see clearly so to speak. Struggling to
decide which one as some were in full non-breeding plumage to half and
half. Again distance and heat waves were a major issue as was the crappy
tripod I was using! LOL I will bring my sturdier personal one tomorrow! No
use trying to view this spot in the morning as the whole area is backlit by
the morning sun. If anyone is interested in checking the area out i can
give you more details on how to get there, but I will first say that it is
a 9/10 of a mile hike down the levee. Then a short hike through thick
habitat in which I would recommend knee boots as it is an easy place to
step on a cottonmouth, then slog about 75 yards through boot sucking ankle
deep mud and a narrow slough of water near the top of my boots. Lake level
rose several inches between the morning and afternoon.
Clayton Ferrell
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