[TN-Bird] Weekend Windbirds - AR-TN-MS

March 25-26, 2006
Shelby-Tipton-Lauderdale Co, TN
Crittenden Co, AR
Desoto-Tunica Co, MS
 
This weekend, looking for shorebird movement, I visited the above counties  
with the following success. Since we have been so dry, the birds were scattered 
 but most were found in areas that have what I call historic habitat. Some of 
 these places look like the most unlikely places to find concentrations 
because  of being located in the middle of vast expanses of agricultural fields 
but 
they  produce year after year because of their geologic history. It is 
amazing that  you can stand in the middle of thousands of acres of fields and 
the 
birds will  be most concentrated in these small areas. In satellite photos 
these 
 areas show up because of iron content laid down over the years by  
invertebrates in these historic wet areas where old sloughs, ponds and lakes  
once 
existed. When we ground proofed the first maps of this type, the first  thing I 
pointed out was that my favorite spots that I had discovered and  birdied for 
years, were all were quite evident plus many new possibilities  appeared. 
 
The following are weekend totals for each state.
 
Killdeer are nesting and were found in high numbers at all locations. Some  
of the birds that sunk to our south for the winter have returned and are behind 
 the birds that stuck it out but are making up time now displaying and 
sorting  out pairings. I found 9 active nests with 1 to 4 eggs.
 
American Golden-Plover - AR - 430  TN - 120  MS - 765
 
Black-necked Stilts - Only one pair found in Desoto Co. MS about 5  miles 
south of Memphis. They are a little late this year returning to the pits  in 
Memphis, which are under major renovations with old habitat quickly  
disappearing.
 
Lesser Yellowlegs - AR - 17   TN - 29  MS - 235
 
Greater Yellowlegs - AR - 5   TN - 3  MS- 19
 
Solitary Sandpiper - TN -1 at the pits in Memphis - First of Season
 
Western Sandpiper - MS - 2
 
Least Sandpiper - AR - 44  TN- 49  MS- 94
 
Baird's Sandpiper - AR - 5  MS - 2
 
Pectoral Sandpiper - AR - 322  TN - 121  MS - 880
 
Dunlin  - AR - 9  MS - 34
 
Stilt Sandpiper - MS - 6
 
Long-billed Dowitcher -  TN - 5  MS - 455
 
Wilson's Snipe - AR - 44  TN - 19  MS - 78
 
Fourteen Species and climbing!!!!!!!!!
 
Good Birding  !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN  38135


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