[TN-Bird] What a difference a day makes!
- From: Mark Greene <greenesnake@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 9 Apr 2010 21:08:09 -0700 (PDT)
Friday, April 9, 2010
Lake County
The first stop was Mud Lake where there were a lot more yellowlegs than
yesterday. Numbers now totaled 64 Greater Yellowlegs and 20 Lesser Yellowlegs.
Quite a few ducks and coots were still here as well.
I arrived at the jct. of Robinson Bayou Rd and Hampton Rd today right after
noon and I was amazed at what I saw. At the spot where I had thousands of
shorebirds yesterday there was not one single shorebird - not even a Killdeer!
The water in the flooded field had dropped out over night and the strong
northerly wind was gone and so were the birds! The only birds in the field were
a handful of Horned Larks.
I did have a few shorebirds on the east side of Robinson Bayou Road on the
north side of Hampton Road near the jct. About 12 Greater Yellowlegs, 6 Lesser
Yellowlegs, and 41 Pectoral Sandpipers were all that were left from the hordes
of birds present yesterday.
On further north, on Mooring Rd, I had 2 Loggerhead Shrikes about 1/2 apart. A
wet hole on Mooring Rd had 3 Black-necked Stilts and a lone Solitary Sandpiper.
Next stop was the Ibis Hole where I found 300+ Ring-billed Gulls plus a large
number of ducks consisting of N. Shoveler, Green-winged Teal, Blue-winged Teal,
Am. Wigeon, Gadwall, and Mallards. The only shorebirds present were 6 Greater
Yellowlegs.
Just up the road at the Phillipy Pits I had 7 Bald Eagles that were, again,
feeding on fish trapped in the receding waters. Also here were my FOS Cattle
Egrets (2), 3 Great Egrets, and 12 Great Blue Herons.
8 Pied-billed Grebes were calling and courting out in the open waters.
Shorebirds here were 3 Black-necked Stilts, 3 Solitary Sandpipers, 9 Lesser
Yellowlegs, and 12 Greater Yellowlegs. A pair of Fish Crows flew over calling
continuously.
On my way back south I found a flock of 40 American White Pelicans on the west
side of the Great River Road at the Lake County/Dyer County line out in a
flooded field.
Good birding,
Mark Greene
Trenton, TN
Gibson County
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