[TN-Bird] Shorebird Fallout - Shelby Farms

March 27, 2008
Shelby Farms
Shelby Co. TN
 
Yesterday, a run through the park yielded, 3 Upland Sandpipers, right on  
time. These birds always show up at this location first ( most likely I just  
watch for them here first), they are fore runners of the protracted  migration 
of 
these elegant prairie birds. Last week, a few small flocks of  American 
Golden-Plovers were seen along with Pectoral Sandpipers in the flooded  areas 
of 
the fields but yesterday, I witness a mid-day weather related fallout  of the 
following: American Golden-Plovers - 3 locations 45 birds, many new and  
resident Killdeer, 4 Greater Yellowlegs, 7 Lesser Yellowlegs, 1 Solitary  
Sandpiper 
right on time for an early bird, 7 Least Sandpiper, 2 Baird's (these  birds 
trickle through early and have a very prolonged migration pattern), 230+  
Pectoral Sandpipers, 2 Short-billed Dowitchers, my earliest date before was  
March 
19, a few of these birds wander early while now most of our early  dowitchers 
are Long-billed as they are wintering just south of Memphis in the MS  Delta in 
great numbers, and 81 Wilson's Snipe. Ten species and counting.
You gotta love them Wind Birds..............  
Good Birding  !!!

Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135
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