First fall migrant reported: Solitary Sandpiper in Bossier City

Well, on schedule, the first southbound migrant (that I have word of) has been reported in our state:  a Solitary Sandpiper up in Bossier City in the northwest corner.  Thank you Terry Davis!

A shorebird of some sort is often our first non-Louisiana-nesting species to return from the north- and this one is all the way from Canada, likely fresh from nesting in some boreal forest wetland.  

Peter

ADDENDUM 7/5-

Since my post, a report of 19 Piping Plovers in the Fourchon-Elmers area has come to light from June 30- claiming rightful ownership of the title of first fall migrants reported!