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["Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>]

Paradise CBC
 
30 December 2007
 
12 observers in 6 parties; thanks to all who participated.
 
Weather was very nice, with a cold, crisp morning giving way to a
relatively calm, warm day with intermittent periods of overcast and
partly cloudy skies.
 
Species total = 82 which is normal for recent years based on lower
waterfowl diversity (especially during warm periods like this year).
 
Highlights included:
 
1 Greater White-fronted Goose and 2 Blue Geese with Canadas at Goose
Lake on the Sinclair Unit
 
140 Wild Turkeys
 
2 Double-crested Cormorants
 
Raptors ... about average numbers for recent years with 4 Rough-leggeds;
41 Northern Harriers; and 17 Short-eared Owls (the last in normal haunts
on Ken Hopewell and Sinclair units). It has been interesting to see the
number of Red-shouldered Hawks increase on this count as many of the
mines have become reforested.
 
7 Virginia Rails (6 answering a tape in one marsh along
Rockport-Paradise Road)
 
130 Eastern Bluebirds
 
3 Marsh Wrens
 
1 COMMON YELLOWTHROAT (male found by Barbara Woerner along KY 1245 near
US 62 in Ohio County) [Interestingly, a second Common Yellowthroat, a
female-type, was seen for count week by Brian Smith, Kate Heyden, and
Adam Smith on the Homestead Unit of Peabody WMA on 2 January!)
 
5 Purple Finches
 
Berry eaters ... ONE Cedar Waxwing; 4 Hermit Thrushes; FOUR American
Robins; TWO Yellow-rumped Warblers.
 
Worst misses besides waterfowl ... Northern Bobwhite; Ring-billed Gull;
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker; and Eastern Phoebe.
 
BPB, Frankfort