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

Spring work kept me busy on our family farm in northeastern Jefferson County 
the past few days, but keeping an eye and ear out for birds created only minor 
diversions from the tasks at hand!

April 9: a singing Fox Sparrow still in the yard along with a newly arrived 
Pine Warbler.

April 10: while mowing Indian grass I kicked up a couple of weak-flying 
Ammodramus sparrows ... I finally got a great look at one, a Le Conte's Sparrow 
... my first on the farm in a number of years.

April 11: a new wave of birds was obviously around with Northern Parula, 
Prairie, and Palm warblers heard first thing in the morning; House Wren another 
new arrival; either the same or a different Le Conte's Sparrow was flushed from 
another field; a female Brewer's Blackbird was seen twice during the day, once 
in the AM and once in the late afternoon; as is the norm, this one wasn't 
feeding with the local Brown-headed Cowbird/Red-winged Blackbird flock, instead 
foraging all alone in another part of the field. It seemed to be finding a lot 
of food in a recently burned-off field where it blended in perfectly with the 
color of the burned off grass stubble. Yesterday evening, a first-year male 
Baltimore Oriole came in to drink water at the bird feeders. I only have ONE 
Dark-eyed Junco still coming to the yard; the rest of the gang have quietly 
departed for parts north in the past couple of weeks. Does anyone else still 
have a junco???

bpb, Louisville