Here is a summary of recent notable arrivals, etc. and significant
concentrations over the last few weeks in Lake County:
April 1, 2016:
Van Works Road:
Bonaparte's Gull - 1500Upland Sandpiper - 1 (FOS)
State Line Road:
Merlin - 1 (FOS)
April 5, 2016:
Bar Road:
Solitary Sandpiper - 1 (FOS)
Black Bayou Refuge:
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1 (FOS)
Phillipy Pits:
Black-necked Stilt - 4Long-billed Dowitcher - 3
April 12, 2016:
Bufflehead - 2Marsh Wren - 1 (FOS)
April 13, 2016:
Tiptonville Bar:
Caspian Tern - 1 (FOS)Forster's Tern - 1
Phillipy Pits:
Black-necked Stilit - 9American Golden-Plover - 34Semipalmated Plover - 2
(FOS)Greater Yellowlegs - 356Willet (Western) - 1Lesser Yellowlegs - 550Stilt
Sandpiper - 1 (FOS)Dunlin - 2 (FOS)Least Sandpiper - 30Pectoral Sandpiper -
1100Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 (FOS)Western Sandpiper - 1 (FOS)Short-billed
Dowitcher - 3 (FOS)Long-billed Dowitcher - 13
Black Bayou Refuge:
Glossy Ibis - 1, adult, breeding plumage
April 14, 2016:
South of Ridgely, Hwy 78:
American Golden-Plover - 1500+, first big flock of the seasonBaird's Sandpiper
- 2Least Sanbdpiper - 15Pectoral Sandpiper - 200Wilson's Snipe - 2
Phillipy Pits (birding with Victor Stoll):
Blue-winged Teal - 57Northern shoveler - 151Black-necked Stilt - 18American
Golden-Plover - 165Semipalmated Plover - 9Greater Yellowlegs - 42, most had
left overnightWillet (Western) - 1Lesser Yellowlegs - 150, many less than the
day beforeDunlin - 6Least SP - 76Pectoral SP - 1056Short-billed Dowitcher -
3Long-billed Dowitcher - 9Wilson's Snipe - 1
Black Bayou Refuge, South Unit:
Cattle Egret - 1 (FOS)Greater YL - 35Lesser YL - 450Pectoral SP - 360Common
Yellowthroat - 1 (FOS)
Swamp Sparrow - 10
Good birding!
Mark GreeneTrenton, TN
