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April 8, 2007
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co. TN
DeSoto Co. MS
 
I met Robert Gooch at the pits this AM to get him his lifer Upland. We had  
great success with close looks at 12 Uplands, 7 were in view at one location 
and  another 5 just across the road. Checking the pits, we came up  with a 
different Dunlin from the one we had on Thursday. We watched the  skies 
suddenly 
filled with tightly packed, swirling specks, like shattering  safety glass; a 
Peregrine blasted through at 11 AM, and cleared the decks.  There were less 
than 
5 birds in view on two pits, where minutes before there had  been a couple of 
thousand feeding Wind Birds. The total species and numbers  appeared to be 
about the same as Saturday except for the added Dunlin. 
 
The shorebirds were just trickling back in over the next hour so we decided  
to check the Uplands and Golden-Plovers just south of Memphis in MS. The first 
 two stops produced 50+ Golden-Plovers and 9 Upland Sandpipers. A tour of 
likely  habitat over the next few hours produced another 124 Plovers and an 
astounding  27 Uplands in 3 different fields. We also had a couple of dozen 
American Pipits  feeding in with the Plovers and Pipers..............
 
Wind Birds on this brisk day, 11 cool species including; 190+ Golden  Plovers 
and 46 UPLAND SANDPIPERS!!  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135

What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the  heavens.




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