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[birdky] Re: RPT: Family farm in Jefferson County
- From: "Roberta Burnes" <rburnes@xxxxxxx>
- To: <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>, "'BIRDKY \(E-mail\)'" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 14:33:04 -0400
Dark-eyed Juncos still coming to my feeder as of yesterday, and the
white-throated sparrows are still singing their heads off as well.
Roberta Burnes
Education Coordinator
The Arboretum & State Botanical Garden of Kentucky
500 Alumni Drive
Lexington, KY 40503
859/257-9339
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From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)
Sent: Wednesday, April 12, 2006 9:38 AM
To: BIRDKY (E-mail)
Subject: [birdky] RPT: Family farm in Jefferson County
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
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