Date: 5/6/25 8:42 am From: Jeremy Cohen <jeremy3cohen...> Subject: Triple digit day at Lake Fayetteville
For a long time I've wanted to find 100 species on a single checklist in
Arkansas or anywhere in the US. I attempted this at Lake Fayetteville
(Washington co.) in 2022 (88 species) and 2024 (94 species) but everything
finally came together yesterday with the right combination of peak
migration, help from other birders, knowledge of the hotspot, weather and
luck. I found *104 species* at Lake Fayetteville over 15 hours of
dawn-to-dusk birding covering 16 miles on foot, including the vireo sweep
and 21 warbler species. The best finds were mourning and canada warbler,
olive-sided and alder flycatchers and a least sandpiper (very unusual at
this location, which has no shorebird habitat) and the biggest misses were
black-and-white warbler and yellow-billed cuckoo. I got lucky with just a
few lingering individuals of white-throated sparrow, yellow-rumped warbler
and ruby-crowned kinglet, all of which are usually gone when the
neotropical migrant diversity is peaking. The 100th bird of the day was a
kingfisher at 3:30 allowing me to relax early, and the final new bird was a
louisiana waterthrush singing at dusk. You can view the checklist here-
https://ebird.org/checklist/S233743644
