[TN-Bird] Shorebirds Galore
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 00:42:09 EDT
April 4-5, 2008
West TN and DeSoto Co. MS
Friday, I spent some time running up the river checking out the flooded
areas and in the rain saw just a smattering of shorebirds. The birding should
be
great when the water starts down. While birding in and out to the river from
Memphis to Reelfoot, I had low scattered numbers of Golden-Plovers, Killdeer,
Solitary, Lesser and Greater Yellowlegs, a single male Black-necked Stilt,
Spotted Sandpiper, 2 Upland Sandpipers, Least, 1 Baird's, Pectoral, 1 Dunlin,
Wilson's Snipe and 1 Wilson's Phalarope . I also had my first of season
Little Blue Heron, 2 Snowys and 6 Cattle Egrets.
On Saturday, I had the big find in DeSoto Co, MS, just a few miles south of
the TN state line. Looking through some of the historical shorebird producing
sites, I counted 1102 American Golden-Plovers at 4 locations on the ground
and over an extended period, by watching the look-out birds, counted flocks
passing over, totaling over 3300 birds. There had to be over 5,000 plovers
around that small area; how many more were taking advantage of the good
weather
traveling through the delta??
Other Wind Birds counted in these wet fields; Killdeer - many on scrapes
along roadside, 123 Greater Yellowlegs, 111 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 female
Black-necked Stilt, 4 Solitary Sandpipers, 2 Upland Sandpipers ( this past week
I've
had 3 Uplands in Haywood Co), 41 Least Sandpipers, 2 Baird's Sandpipers, 121
Pectoral Sandpipers, 1 Dunlin, 45 Wilson's Snipe.
Fourteen, male and female Brewer's Blackbirds fed in one wet area.
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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