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April 6, 2008
Crittenden Co. AR
Ensley Bottoms, Shelby Co, TN
 
I spent a lot of Saturday just south of Memphis in the delta, coming up  with 
a good number of American Golden-Plovers moving north, 4,400 plus birds  
counted and photographed. Sunday, I decided to try the delta in Crittenden Co,  
AR, just across the river. The Golden-Plovers were not migrating as they  were 
on Saturday, just mostly sitting in the rolled rice fields and occasionally  
boiling up from their rest, disturbed by passing Harrier Hawks. Four hours  
along about 4 miles of roadway, I counted the following: American 
Golden-Plovers  
-2,125, Long-billed Dowitchers - 386, Greater Yellowlegs -52, Lesser 
Yellowlegs  -27, Solitary Sandpiper -2. Black-necked Stilts -2, Stilt 
Sandpipers -2, 
Dunlin  -53, Pectoral Sandpipers -677, Wilson's Snipe - 23, Bunch of courting 
Killdeer  and most amazingly, only ONE Least Sandpiper. Many more Wind Birds 
were seen but  too far across the fields in the heat haze to count.
 
Earlier in the AM, I again photographed the Black Scoter at TVA Lake in  
Ensley Bottoms and took a few photos of a rare light morph Harlan's  Red-tail 
to 
go along with the Krider's and a dark and light morph  calurus sighted 
Saturday, quite an array of western type Red-tails moving  through.
 
Not too bad for a weekend, with over 7,000 Golden-Plovers in two days and a  
total of 16 species of Wind Birds, including the Dyer Co, TN, Wilson's  
Phalarope, seen Friday afternoon.  
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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