[TN-Bird] Windbird Weekend

From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, ARBIRD-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 07:55:53 EST
March 15-16, 2003
West TN- East ARK

Shorebirds kept showing up all weekend, with the total number of species 
ending at 10. Of these 8 were migrants and three were first of the season 
birds. An early Semipalmated Plover at Eagle Lake in Shelby Co. TN on 
Saturday, Golden Plovers in the rice fields in east Arkansas at two locations 
on Sunday and a late afternoon male Black-necked Stilt that dropped in on the 
like colored Scaup at Ensley Bottoms in Memphis on Sunday afternoon, were all 
new arrivals for me.

Killdeer were migrating, mating and scraping, which made for a lot of 
activity. Greater Yellowlegs rushed around sweeping for minnows and slightly 
fewer Lesser Yellowlegs paced the muddy waters over all the areas traveled 
this weekend. 

Pectoral Sandpipers appeared in all size flocks from ones and twos in small 
roadside wet spots to flocks of 200 speeding along over the rolled rice 
fields. One of these low flying flocks turned into 40+ Golden-Plovers. The 
largest number of Pecs found in one area was west of Wapanocca where I 
counted over 400 in one vast field. Least Sandpipers were found in much 
smaller groups but they are harder to pick up in these huge rolled rice 
fields than their larger kin the Pectorals. 

Wilson's Snipe numbers have dropped drastically as they move north in lock 
step with the softening soil and Woodcock performed in Nonconnah Creek and 
other bottoms in keeping with their seasonal contracts.

Each day brings a new Windbird, old acquaintances are not forgot.

Good Birding!!!

Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.


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