[TN-Bird] 66 - Baird's Sandpipers
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2005 22:52:25 EDT
April 9, 2005
Ensley Bottoms-Shelby Co. TN
Rice Fields - Crittenden Co. AR
I started the day at Ensley and the large bunch of Lesser Yellowlegs had
dwindled to just a dozen birds. Also Present were Killdeer, Greater Yellowlegs,
Black-necked Stilts, Solitary Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpipers, Least
Sandpipers, Pectoral Sandpipers, 17 Long-billed Dowitcher and 5 Wilson's
Snipe. Also I
found mu FOY Eastern Kingbird and Baltimore Oriole.
After a tour of Presidents Island to check doves and the nested Great Horned
Owls, I traveled across the bridge to the rice fields and hit the Mother
Load. The wet fields were covered as far as the eye could see with American
Golden-Plovers and Pectoral Sandpipers. I really could not estimate the numbers
but there was no field that did not have a contingent of these pacers. I also
had; Killdeer, Greater (22) and Lesser Yellowlegs (4), Least Sandpipers (13),
Solitary Sandpipers (2), Spotted Sandpiper (1). I was quite pleased when I
picked out a single Baird's in among the Pectorals but the BIG SURPRISE was 65
BAIRD'S Sandpipers and 54 Dunlin found at one location. This is the largest
flock of Baird's that I have ever recorded here along the Mississippi River in
the spring and as far as my records go it beats my top Fall number also.
I also had Western Meadowlarks at 2 locations.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL'COOT / TLBA
Bartlett, TN
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