[TN-Bird] Belated report; West TN
- From: Michael Todd <birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: TN Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 16:41:39 -0700 (PDT)
Not much to report from a couple of recent partial days of birding here in west
TN
5/11/2010
McKenzie area (Henry Co)
Birded just a few hours in the morning, both for migrants and to see how bad
the flooding had damaged my area. Flood damage was severe, with several bridges
gone. A few migrants around, including several TN Warblers, and a Cape May
among a few others such as Northern Waterthrush and a Philadelphia Vireo.
Didn't try any of my Lark Sparrow locations
5/12/2010
Reelfoot area (Obion & Lake Co)
I spent a couple of hours on Walnut Log (Obion Co), which was pretty quiet.
Highlight was 4 singing Canada Warblers, probably my high count for west TN.
Magnolia was the most common migrant, with a few Chestnut-sided and Northern
Waterthrushes as well. Heard Swainson's and Gray-cheeked Thrushes. Mississippi
Kites were numerous as well, as expected. Just north of Walnut Log had an
Olive-sided Flycatcher, which had left by the time I got turned around and came
back to it.
Shorebirds were few and far between, and the first two locations I had some a
Peregrine cleaned them out before I even got out of the car! Finally did get a
nice group of White-rumped, Semi and Least Sands at Black Bayou, which let me
walk right up on them for some decent photos. Also several Black-necked Stilts
around, and a few Pectorals, Spotted, and both Yellowlegs. While walking back
to the pools at Black Bayou, I flushed my FOY Sora. Only other shorebird of
note was a single Black-bellied Plove west of Ridgely.
The only tern was a Forster's on Reelfoot Lake. A few Bobolinks were twinkling,
but just not much going on passerine wise, other than swallows. Had all of TN's
regular swallows at Phillipy.
If anybody is interested, I've added a few new varied new photos to my spring
2010 gallery:
http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/spring_2010 ;, or the first new image starts here:
http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/image/124454501/original ;
Good Birding!!
Mike Todd
McKenzie, TN
birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
www.pbase.com/mctodd
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