[TN-Bird] Yellowlegs - West TN

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2011 09:11:27 -0400 (EDT)
April 22-23, 2011
West TN Yellowlegs- Plus
 
Running flooded areas in Lauderdale, Dyer and Lake Counties  produced these 
high numbers of Yellowlegs taken from tally  cards.
 
Highway 88 - Lauderdale Co. from Porter Gap to Obion  Bridge
Lesser Yellowlegs - 488+ Greater Yellowlegs - 321+ - 6 Black-n  Stilts
 
Great River Road - Dyer Co.
Lesser - 670+ Greater - 120+ - 8 Black-n  Stilts
 
104 Highway - Big Boy Junction to Great River Road -Dyer  Co.
Lesser - 345+ Greater - 214+
 
Great River Road - Lake Co.
Lesser - 1445++ Greater - 423+ - 17 Black-n  Stilts
 
Highway 79 west of levee + Mississippi  Levee 
Lesser - 4680++ Greater - 1332+ - 22 Black-n  Stilts
High count was Friday afternoon-  fewer birds on  Saturday due to waters 
rising.
 
On these 2 days, there were well over 10,000 Yellowlegs  using the flooded 
fields in these 3 West TN Counties. I've seen concentrations like this only 
on some large minnow pond  operations in central Arkansas.
 
Other species of note not mentioned in previous postings for  these days 
off flooded 79 Highway:
 3 female Red-breasted Mergansers, 2 Ring-necked, 2  Lesser Scaup, 21 
Shovelers, 140+ Blue-winged Teal, 9 Green-winged Teal, 43  Pied-b Grebe, 
7 Snowy Egrets, 8 Little Blue ( 3 pied / 5 ad), 132  Ring-billed Gulls and 
2 Herring Gulls (1 -3rd yr/ 1 ad).  One male Yellow Warbler landed at the 
water's edge at my feet, took a  drink and then headed North. 
 
 
Good  Birding!!
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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