[TN-Bird] Mini Fallout - Lauderdale Co. / Good birds in Reelfoot Area
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 23:35:54 EDT
May 15, 2004
Chickasaw Bluff
Early Saturday morning, I had a mini-warbler fallout, nothing to equal the
one Mike, Mark and I experienced a couple of years ago there but pretty good
for
an hours birding. The habitat along the road has been devastated by clear
cutting but one section still has that magic.
In a short period of time and walking less than 100 yards I had the following
birds moving constantly northward through the trees: Tennessee 5, Parula 2,
Yellow 5, Chestnut Sided 2, Magnolia 3, Yellow-rumped 2, Blackburnian 1, Palm
1, Bay-breasted 8, Blackpoll 3, Redstart 2, Prothonotary 2, Northern
Waterthrush -1, Common Yellowthroat 2, Hooded 1, Kentucky 2, Canada 1, Chat 2,
Philadelphia Vireo plus 4 other vireo species and assorted other expected
species.
Flycatchers were seen and heard, good photos of Olive-sided, one of three seen
that day, Alder in full song and Acadian. A Least FC was seen at White Lake
Refuge and a Willow was calling at a location outside of Tiptonville.
I flushed a Black-billed Cuckoo that I was stalking and unexpectantly it was
followed by another when it flew, pair? Hummingbirds were everywhere along the
roadsides.
At the Phillippy Pits in Lake Co, an American Bittern briefly showed itself
off the south side of the road. At Champy Pocket there were 4 species of terns,
Caspian 1, Forster's 4, Common 1, Least 1. Cattle Egrets were strewn about in
every field, this is a species that you see going to and from the rookeries
but usually you have to go over to the hill country to see big numbers on the
ground but I counted over a thousand in fields in Dyer and Lake Counties.
Grasshopper Sparrows were bunched up in a lot of fields but clearly out lunged
by
the ever present Dickcissel.
Shorebirds were in short supply with only the following seen Killdeer,
Black-bellied Plover 1, Lesser Yellowlegs 6, Black-necked Stilts 2, Spotted 1,
Solitary 1 (late) and 4 Short-billed Dowitchers.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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