This afternoon we made a brief check of the shorebird habitat in Dyer County in preparation for weekend birding. At Highway 103 and Great River Road we had the female Greater Scaup and male Northern Pintail that have been there for a week or so. Also we had: Semipalmated Plovers 22 Semipalmated Sandpipers 14 Dunlin 4 Black-bellied Plover 4 At White Lake we had 2 Hudsonian Godwits in breeding plummage, a Ruddy Turnstone and at least 8 Black-necked Stilts (probably more like 12) with one on nest. We also had: Black-bellied Plovers 4 One female American Wigeon Double-crested Cormorants 4 Stilt Sandpiper 1 Semipalmated Sandpipers 175 Semipalmated Plovers 4 White-rumped Sandpipers 2 This should be a good shorebird weekend. Earlier this week we had 11 Hooded Mergansers and a mother Wood Duck with 6 young at Black Bayou. At Goose Pond we had a mother Mallard with 5 young. Ken Leggett Dyersburg, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================