[TN-Bird] Reelfoot area; 4/30/08
- From: "Todd, Michael C." <michael.c.todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 2008 11:38:19 -0500
4/30/08
Reelfoot Lake & Mississippi River areas of Obion, Lake, Dyer Co
I spent most of the day yesterday birding with Jared Barnes. We had a total
of 135 species, not too bad, considering the overall lack of shorebirds, and
nothing rare at all.
We started on Walnut Log Rd, which was as good as I've seen it in a long
time. There were warblers singing and moving the length of the road. Walnut
Log produced 21 species of warblers, with 4 more later in the day. Warblers
for the day:
Blue-winged Warbler: FOS (at least 3 males singing on Walnut Log)
Tennessee Warbler: singing everywhere throughout day, at least 20 on
Walnut Log alone
Nashville Warbler: 2 singing on Walnut Log
Northern Parula
Yellow Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler: FOS (2 males on Walnut Log)
Magnolia Warbler: FOS (1 male on Walnut Log)
Yellow-rumped Warbler: most abundant warbler of the day, by far
Black-throated Green Warbler: 4 on Walnut Log
Yellow-throated Warbler
Pine Warbler: (not seen at Reelfoot, stopped near home and got it)
Prairie Warbler: (also not at Reelfoot, found near home)
Palm Warbler: (several singing during day)
Bay-breasted Warbler: FOS (one singing male on Walnut Log)
Blackpoll Warbler: FOS (several singing over course of day, at least 5 on
Walnut Log)
Cerulean Warbler: NOT SEEN, they aren't back at their usual spot this year
on WL
Black-and-white Warbler
Prothonotary Warbler
Swainson's Warbler (1 singing on Walnut Log)
Ovenbird (1 singing on Walnut Log)
Northern Waterthrush (6 on Walnut Log)
LA Waterthrush (1 on Walnut Log)
Kentucky Warbler
Common Yellowthroat
Hooded Warbler (not seen at Reelfoot for some reason, found close to
home)
Yellow-breasted Chat
Other highlights from Walnut Log were a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, FOS
Swainson's Thrushes (several) and a lingering Hermit Thrush. Rose-breasted
Grosbeak and Least Flycatcher were also FOS birds for me here today. We
would add 2 more Least Flycatchers (in KY) on the day. Acadian only other
empid of the day. Eastern Wood-Pewees were vocal. Haven't seen or heard a
Cuckoo yet, except for a overhead line casualty we found yesterday.
We then made our way around the top end of the lake. Shorebird habitat is
drying out very fast, especially since many of the traditionally good areas
were worked over the last couple of dry years, with improved drainage. The
Phillipy Pits/Ibis Hole area is still very much inundated, so hopefully will
offer some late season shorebirding. The areas on the Great River Rd where
Jeff and I had good birds less than 2 weeks ago are almost completely dry
now, only Hurd Loop Rd (Dyer Co) offered any birds yesterday. I didn't make
it down farther south on the Great River Rd, where there probably is still
some habitat. Only 9 species of shorebirds were seen:
American Golden-Plover (2 groups of about 30 birds, both in Dyer Co)
Killdeer
Black-necked Stilt: (1 group of 10 birds resting together, Dyer Co)
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs (no large groups of either Legs)
Solitary Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Long-billed Dowitcher (6 in Dyer Co)
I'm sure we overlooked some Least somewhere, but it was tough!
Great Egrets were numerous, but we only saw 2 small herons all day, 2 adult
Little Blues. The Lake itself was pretty dead, with several Ring-bills
flying around, and about 6 Forster's and 1 Common Tern. One Caspian was also
on a distant log, and they were seen 2 other times on the day, sitting in
flooded fields. No Least or Black Terns.
Dickcissels are in pretty good numbers already, but I was surprised by not
seeing or hearing any Bobolinks, though we didn't spent much time on the
levees. Grasshopper Sparrows were buzzing from several locations. A
Mississippi Kite soaring over the south unit of Black Bayou was also a FOS
bird.
Great day to be out, even if shorebirding was considerably shower than I had
anticipated!
Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (home)
Michael.c.todd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (work)
www.pbase.com/mctodd
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