[TN-Bird] TN/MS - After the weather Blue Skies.
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 08:20:20 -0400 (EDT)
April 12, 2011
TN/MS
After the storm on Monday, that produced Godwits in TN-AR-KY, I wanted to
see if anything was still hanging around. At the house, I still had a large
group of White-throated Sparrows and 3-4 Juncos plus the stealth nesting
American Crows in the top of a Pine. They are feeding young but are the best
at keeping it on the Q. T.
At the North Treatment Plant, the Black-necked Stilts are getting it on
but have a away to go to catch up with the Killdeer which hatched their first
young in the storm on Monday. I was able to photograph the empty scrape
and 4 fuzzy balls trying out their wobbly land legs. The high water here
caused most of the shorebirds to move on but remnants of 8 shorebird species
remain with Green and Blue-winged Teal, Gadwall, Shoveler and Mallards. Purple
Martins were gathering mud and flying to the plant to build mud retainer
walls in their cavity nests located in the steel structures.
At Ensley, all the Greater Yellowlegs were gone with still good numbers of
shorebirds but no big birds; new for the season were 2 "sweeeet" talking
Semipalmated Plovers. Looking into all the hidden lakes, ponds and puddles
took some time in southwest Memphis but produced a stunning 54 Black-bellied
Whistling Ducks, evidently put down during the storm; how long they will
stay?? They are appearing all over the eastern US and a few even into Canada.
In DeSoto Co, Mississippi, 3 fields produced a few hundred Golden-Plovers
but almost every one was resting so most will be moving on soon with
hopefully more to come. The fields produced 3 Uplands, 2 in one field close
enough for photos and one hiding in another. Along the Mississippi Levee in TN,
one Upland rested, continually looking up into the blue sky, I never found
the travelers it was watching but things are moving...big
time.................
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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