[TN-Bird] Duck River/Kentucky Lake today

From: Terry Witt <terrywitt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: tn-bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2012 17:07:29 -0700 (PDT)
Chad Smith and I spent a productive day seeing many early arrivals with some 
uncommon finds mixed in for spice

Duck River NWR is now loaded with shorebirds, most are on the newly opened area 
of flooded fields accessed from the northern end of the wildlife loop (newly 
opened gate)
Seen today were numerous Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Solitary and Pectoral 
Sandpipers, Wilson's Snipes, and a group of 4 LB Dowitchers in one pond with 6 
Dunlin in another.  Chad saw A Golden Plovers here yesterday.

At Pace Point, no gulls were seen, the Ruddy Duck raft is still cruising 
offshore
A single gull floating offshore turned into a first year Great Black-backed! 
On the drive out, a small bird exploded from the roadside just north of the 
Bennett's Creek overlook
It appeared to be a small dove with a short tail, dark back, no white in the 
tail
We both felt it was most likely a Common Ground-Dove, but the red wings were 
not 
seen

Moving to Britton Ford, there is a gull roost present that can be seen at a 
distance from the south side of the slough near the new under construction 
visitors center
This can be accessed by walking across a large field, and contained 6 Laughing 
Gulls, several Forster's Terns and a single breeding-plumaged Common Tern, in 
addition to the ususal 3 gulls.  There are numerous Savannah and Vesper 
Sparrows 
here

Still 3 A White Pelicans present at the mouth of Big Sandy with numerous 
distant 
ducks 

Another large congregation of gulls was seen at Little Eagle Creek, both 
Forster's and Common Terns and Laughing Gulls here also
One A Golden Plover seen on the flats

The gull roost at the island off Paris Landing was loaded with birds, best was 
the same? adult Lesser Black-backed seen last week 

Also in various areas were newly arrived Cliff Swallows, WE Vireos, a raft of 6 
RB Mergansers, etc

Terry Witt
Murfreesboro Tn
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