FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] 66 - Baird's Sandpipers

[OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx]

April 9, 2005
Ensley Bottoms-Shelby Co. TN
Rice Fields - Crittenden Co. AR
 
I started the day at Ensley and the large bunch of Lesser Yellowlegs had  
dwindled to just a dozen birds. Also Present were Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs, 
 
Black-necked Stilts, Solitary Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpipers, Least 
Sandpipers,  Pectoral Sandpipers, 17 Long-billed Dowitcher and 5 Wilson's 
Snipe. Also I 
found  mu FOY Eastern Kingbird and Baltimore Oriole.
 
After a tour of Presidents Island to check doves and the nested Great  Horned 
Owls, I traveled across the bridge to the rice fields and hit the Mother  
Load. The wet fields were covered as far as the eye could see with American  
Golden-Plovers and Pectoral Sandpipers. I really could not estimate the numbers 
 
but there was no field that did not have a contingent of these pacers. I also  
had; Killdeer, Greater (22) and Lesser Yellowlegs (4), Least Sandpipers (13),  
Solitary Sandpipers (2), Spotted Sandpiper (1). I was quite pleased when I  
picked out a single Baird's in among the Pectorals but the BIG SURPRISE was 65  
BAIRD'S Sandpipers and 54 Dunlin found at one location. This is the largest  
flock of Baird's that I have ever recorded here along the Mississippi River in 
 the spring and as far as my records go it beats my top Fall number also.
 
I also had Western Meadowlarks at 2 locations.  
Good  Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett,  TN



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