[TN-Bird] Shorebirds West TN
- From: "Mark Greene" <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> (Redacted sender "greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx" for DMARC)
- To: TN-Birds Bird <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 06:30:30 -0700
August 26, 2014
Dyer & Lake Counties
I made a couple of quick stops for shorebirds yesterday. My first stop was at
Moss Island WMA in Dyer County. The big pool, visible from the Great River
Road, is drying up quickly but was full of shorebirds yesterday. A quick scan
yielded the following:
Great Blue Heron - 7
Great Egret - 16
Snowy Egret - 2
Killdeer - 32
Least Sandpiper - 1000+
Pectoral Sandpiper - 200
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 50
Baird's Sandpiper - 1
White Lake Refuge in Dyer County was dry as far as I could tell. They had some
heavy equipment in there and the dust was flying so I didn't stay long.
For the first time in years, I drove west down Hwy 79W in Lake County, all the
way to the Mississippi River. The blacktop ends and turns into a winding,
narrow one lane dirt road near the end. There was an extensive sandbar on the
east side of the river and I walked out a little ways. The only shorebirds were
50 Killdeer and a lone Baird's Sandpiper.
This morning I had the window raised in the bathroom and I heard an Upland
Sandpiper call twice from the soybean field behind our house. I looked up my
previous records for Upland Sandpipers and discovered that I had one calling
from the same field on 26 August 2010! In West Tennessee Uplands frequent
soybean fields in the fall and are most easily discovered by their calls in the
beans. Glen Criswell and I had 10 in a soybean field on Hwy 79W in Lake County
back on 18 August 1996!
Good birding!
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Gibson County
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