Lynn Christie and I made a pass through Lollie Bottoms yesterday afternoon on our way back to Little Rock after doing our group's annual survey of the Nature Conservancy's Bluffton Preserve north of Clinton.Our goal was to find Bobolinks at Lollie, a reliable site each year for Bobolinks. Around 10 Bobolinks were on the fence surrounding the sewer treatment plant. Also had several Lark Sparrows there. Nice. As Dan Scheiman always reminded us, it is a narrow window of time when the Bobolinks come through.We then birded our way through Lollie Bottoms to the east side of the Conway airport. That side is always full of Bobolinks on the big fence that runs along that side of the airport. Big surprise was there were no Bobolinks. But, we birders know that each day can be different. We also didn't find Bobolinks down at Sand Gap Road, which is normally another reliable Bobolink site at Lollie. Also, no big flocks of blackbirds, which meant no Yellow-headed Blackbirds, which we see there often this time of the year.Karen Holliday Birding Faulkner Co.
