FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Arrow Lake (Maury County) shorebirds etc.

[Bill Pulliam <bb551@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On a tip from Jon Mann, I checked out Arrow Lake in southwest Maury  
County, just south of Mount Pleasant along highway 166.  About a half  
hour there this morning produced:

Wood Duck -- 1 eclipse
Mallard -- 25 eclipse wild-acting + a few tame mottly farm ducks
Blue-winged Teal -- 29 eclipse
Great Blue Heron -- 4
Great Egret -- 1
Killdeer -- 30
Pectoral Sandpiper -- 41
Solitary Sandpiper -- 12
Spotted Sandpiper -- 1

...and among the land birds, one Warbling Vireo was still singing.   
Nearly all the birds on the lake were at the far upper (southern)  
end, visible only by scoping from the shoulder of Arrow Lake Road.

Nothing unusual, but the largest concentration of migrant shorebirds  
and eclipse waterfowl I have yet found in my general area and  
definitely a hotspot worthy of regular checking.  With this and the  
Roberts Bend Road hogwallow in the northwest part of Maury County, I  
now have two shorebird spots to hit on shopping trips to Columbia.   
That's a good thing.

Bill Pulliam
Hohenwald TN
http://bbill.blogspot.com
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