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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
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing that  lifts my heart to the heavens.




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