FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] 10-13 April 2006

[David Roemer <dlroemer@xxxxxxxxx>]

4-10

Griffin Park/Warren

Ross's x Snow Goose 
Snow Goose (dark-morph)

Petros Pond

Pectoral Sandpiper (9)


4-11

Barren Reservoir

Common Loon (2)
Ring-billed and Bonaparte's Gulls   few each
Forster's Tern  few
Broad-winged Hawk (3)
Osprey


4-12

Drakes Creek/Franklin

Great Egret
Osprey
Gr Yellowlegs
RT Hummingbird

WKU Farm/Bowling Green

Brewer's Blackbird (7)


4-13

Back to Sloughs WMA in Henderson County to look
through shorebirds.  Water level had dropped at the
Woods Tract...birds were scattered and more difficult
to observe due to vegetation.  I did not see the
Cinnamon Teal.

Woods Tract

GW Teal (25-30)
BW Teal (175-200)
Shoveler (70)
Gadwall (6)
Gr Yellowlegs (20)
L Yellowlegs (25)
Pectoral Sandpiper (180-200)
Dunlin (9)

Dance Rd.

Gr Yellowlegs (5)
L Yellowlegs (10)
Pectoral Sandpiper (45)

Hardy Slough

Gr Yellowlegs (3)
L Yellowlegs (20)
Pectoral Sandpiper (100)

Muddy Slough

Gr Yellowlegs (5)
L Yellowlegs (5)
Pectoral Sandpiper (15)
Least Sandpiper (2)

W Snipe (50+ scattered)
House Wren
White-eyed, Yellow-throated, and Warbling Vireos
Yellow Warbler
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow

Klondike Rd.

Little Blue Heron (adult)

268 Slough

Hooded Merganser (2 females)
Gr Yellowlegs (4)
L Yellowlegs (7)
Pectoral Sandpiper (8)

An evening check of the Woodburn area revealed that
Chaney Lake and Walton's Pond have formed to some
extent.  McElroy Lake is dry except for small puddles
around the springs.  

Petros Pond

Gr Yellowlegs 
Pectoral Sandpiper (13)
Least Sandpiper (3)

Walton's 

American Wigeon (2)
Pectoral Sandpiper (11)

Chaney (barely into field on west side)

Gr Egret (2)
Snowy Egret (1)
Little Blue Heron (1)
Solitary Sandpiper (3)
Gr Yellowlegs 
L Yellowlegs (2)

McElroy (Mud around springs)

Am Golden-Plover (9)
Gr Yellowlegs 
L Yellowlegs (3)
Solitary Sandpiper 
Pectoral Sandpiper (15+)
Least Sandpiper (3)

W Snipe (15+ scattered)
Eastern Kingbird (3)
RT Hummer at feeder

Joanie and I took a drive in the moonlight and heard 3
Whip-poor-wills along Cox-Thomas Rd. in Warren County.

David L. Roemer
Bowlin Green, Ky.








  







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