[TN-Bird] Upland/G-Plovers- TN/MS

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, missbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2011 07:37:54 -0400 (EDT)
April 9, 2011
SW-TN, NW-MS
 
In DeSoto Co. MS, I finally found 3 Uplands in what is  suitable habitat 
other than the Mississippi River levee. Because of the dry  fall, many of the 
fields were plowed and rowed rather than allowed to lay fallow  until 
spring, thus changing the habitat that these Uplands like. After much  riding 
and 
looking, I finally located a historic use field, where the land  has lain 
fallow over the winter. After scanning the grass, I was about to  move on when 
a clear whistle stopped me. After scanning again, a beady  shoebutton eye 
gleamed from a patch of grass, then another and another. After we  became 
accustom to watching one another, they finally got up and went back to  the job 
at hand, working on the fat stores.
 
In a nearby field, I counted 275+ American Golden-Plovers,  lots of 
Killdeer and 3 Pectoral Sandpipers, plus many Horned Larks. Only  two other 
small 
groups of traveling plovers were seen in MS.
 
At Robco Lake, Shelby Co. TN, the Common Loon was still  present along with 
3 Red-breasted Mergansers but after a record 45 day stay, the  Red-necked 
Grebe has evidently moved on.
 
A quick trip to Ensley Bottoms, found a single Upland using  the grassy 
area around the main office at the spray units and 22 Golden-Plovers  in the 
field north of the NuCor Plant. I did not have time to run the "Pits" but  did 
see the American Bittern in the Horn Lake Cutoff.  

Jeff R.  Wilson / TLBA
6300 Memphis-Arlington Road
Bartlett, TN   38135
http://www.pbase.com/ol_coot/
What is this feathered thing  that  lifts my heart to the  heavens.


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