April 6, 2008 Crittenden Co. AR Ensley Bottoms, Shelby Co, TN I spent a lot of Saturday just south of Memphis in the delta, coming up with a good number of American Golden-Plovers moving north, 4,400 plus birds counted and photographed. Sunday, I decided to try the delta in Crittenden Co, AR, just across the river. The Golden-Plovers were not migrating as they were on Saturday, just mostly sitting in the rolled rice fields and occasionally boiling up from their rest, disturbed by passing Harrier Hawks. Four hours along about 4 miles of roadway, I counted the following: American Golden-Plovers -2,125, Long-billed Dowitchers - 386, Greater Yellowlegs -52, Lesser Yellowlegs -27, Solitary Sandpiper -2. Black-necked Stilts -2, Stilt Sandpipers -2, Dunlin -53, Pectoral Sandpipers -677, Wilson's Snipe - 23, Bunch of courting Killdeer and most amazingly, only ONE Least Sandpiper. Many more Wind Birds were seen but too far across the fields in the heat haze to count. Earlier in the AM, I again photographed the Black Scoter at TVA Lake in Ensley Bottoms and took a few photos of a rare light morph Harlan's Red-tail to go along with the Krider's and a dark and light morph calurus sighted Saturday, quite an array of western type Red-tails moving through. Not too bad for a weekend, with over 7,000 Golden-Plovers in two days and a total of 16 species of Wind Birds, including the Dyer Co, TN, Wilson's Phalarope, seen Friday afternoon. Good Birding !!! Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA 6300 Memphis-Arlington Road Bartlett, TN 38135 http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/ What is this feathered thing that lifts my heart to the heavens. **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016) =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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 ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________