[TN-Bird] 30 Upland Sandpipers - Ensley Bottoms TN and DeSoto MS
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 22:06:41 EDT
April 21, 2007
Ensley Bottoms
Shelby Co, TN
DeSoto Co, MS just south of TN line
Mike Todd joined me today for a Wind Bird run but mainly for an Upland for
his TN year list and another for his MS list Lifer. We quickly found 5 off
Riverport Road at Ensley and then went to Mississippi and located 19 in one
cotton field, then 6 in another. Super good looks at our leisure, they are way
cool, elegant birds. We also had 8 Golden-Plovers in the same field with the
19
Upland, off of Old 61 Highway near Bass Landing Road.
Other birds of note for the day: a Great-crested called at my house before
we left and another at Ensley. Shorebirds at Ensley included: Killdeer, 6
Semipalmated Plovers, Black-necked Stilts, Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs (again
Lesser out numbered all other Wind Birds species), Solitary, Spotted, Upland,
Least (amazingly few), 4 Baird's Sandpipers, Pectoral, Wilson's Snipe and a
Wilson's Phalarope in basic plumage.
There were large numbers of Chimney Swifts at the river along with about 30
Ring-billed Gulls with all in first summer plumage. Eastern Kingbirds were
strewn about in small groups, Warbling Vireos sang from the tall Cotton Woods
at
most stops, Fish Crows continue to be found all over the place, Horned larks
feed young in the fields where American Pipits stroll. We had a few warblers
but 6 Palm in one willow and a Yellow-breasted Chat croaking, whistling and
squeaking a song from the top of a small tree just 40 feet away in the bright
sun took the daily warbler prize. A strange Vesper Sparrow in an odd
plumage, furnished Mike his year bird while we both had our first of year Blue
Grosbeaks -2, and Indigo Buntings.
If you were out today you were truly blessed, it was marvelous......
Good Birding !!!
Jeff R. Wilson / TLBA
6298 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN 38135
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