[birdky] Sunday Birding - Reelfoot area (KY/TN)

  • From: "Mann, Jon" <JMann@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <tn-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 12 Apr 2004 16:12:27 -0500

Rob Lane and I birded the Reelfoot area before and after Easter Dinner.  
Highlights:
Tennessee - Black Bayou Handicapped Hunting Area (11:00am):
Pectorial Sandpipers - 5
Least Sandpipers - 25
Greater Yellowlegs - 4
Snowy Egret - 2
Little Blue Heron - 5
Northern Shoveler - 2
Blue-wing Teal - 10
Wood Duck - 3
American Coot - 2
Wilson's Snipe - 4
Eastern Kingbird (on wire on approach road) - 1
Fish Crow - about 10
Also had 5 Loggerhead Shrikes at various points roadside on U.S. 412 between 
Jackson and Dyersburg.

Kentucky
Long Point Unit, Reelfoot 6:00 pm
Greater Yellowlegs - 5
Lesser Yellowlegs - 20+
Least Sandpiper - at least 4 flocks of 25-30 came in and landed while we were 
watching - there had been none when we arrived.  One flock flew only a few feet 
over our heads.
Northern Shoveler - 30
Blue-wing Teal - 50
Gadwall - 4
Pintail - 1

Jon Mann
Nashville, TN




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