• Spring - Especially good during periods of thunderstorms and after heavy overnight rains
• Prime time is late April through late May
• Best time is early morning before birds move north & late afternoon & evening during storms as birds drop in
• Fall – Not as good as spring but still good after heavy rains
• Prime time is late July through mid October
• Best season for Buff-breasted & Upland Sandpipers
• Prime time is last few days of July through early September
• Not as dependent on rain or standing water as other shorebirds but do favor fields being irrigated
• Local Area Sod Farms
• 56th Street North
• Bixby
• Leonard
• Wagoner County
• Kadashan
• North Tulsa County prairies & plowed fields good in early spring for American Golden-Plover
• Several area lakes have ideal shoreline and mudflats depending upon lake levels
• Prime time is same as for sod farms
• Spring & Fall equally good
• Some species more common on lakes than sod farms
• Lake Keystone only lake that has habitat at normal but better at 1.5 ft. below normal or lower
• Osage Point
• Osage Ramp
• Feyodi Creek
• Cowskin Bay South
• Hwy 48 Overlook to Pawnee Cove
• Cottonwood Creek South
• Lake Oologah
• needs to be about a foot below normal to have much habitat and is ideal at 1.5 ft. below normal or lower
• Winganon Causeway
• Winganon Flats
• Sooner Lake is not that dependent upon the lake level
• Not a lot of flats
• Prime attraction is rocky causeways
• Best spot in Oklahoma for late spring migrants
• Black-bellied Plover
• Whimbrel
• Ruddy Turnstone
• Sanderling
• Unfortunately the north-south causeway is now off limits
• Area sewage lagoons usually not that productive
• Most don’t have exposed flats
• 56th Street North & Collinsville Sewage Lagoons
• Only area sewage lagoons with occasional flats
• Skiatook Sewage Lagoons usually not very productive for shorebirds