Melissa Easley, Roseanna Denton, Patty Horner and I spent a few days in the
Reelfoot area for early spring birding. We arrived in pouring rain and drove
over flooded roads Thursday. Friday wasn't much better but Saturday and
Sunday morning were great. Roseanna and I spent some time trying to relocate
the
Say's Phoebe this afternoon with no luck. Listed below are the birds seen
in KY.
Wood Duck
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Mallard
Blue-winged Teal
Northern Shoveler
Green-winged Teal
Lesser Scaup
Bufflehead
Hooded Merganser
Ruddy Duck
Wild Turkey
Pied-billed Grebe
Horned Grebe
Am. White Pelican
American Bittern -1
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret
Black vulture
Turkey vulture
Bald Eagle
Northern Harrier
Red-shouldered Hawk
Red-tailed Hawk
American Kestrel
Am. Coot
American Golden Plover - 51
Killdeer
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Wilson's Snipe
Bonaparte's gull
Ring-billed Gull
Rock Pigeon
Eurasian Collared Dove
Mourning Dove
Barred Owl
Belted Kingfisher
Red-headed Woodpecker
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
Downy Woodpecker
Hairy Woodpecker
N. Flicker
Pileated Woodpecker
SAY'S PHOEBE
Eastern Phoebe
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed Vireo
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Fish Crow
Horned Lark
Purple Martin
Tree Swallow
N. Rough-winged swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Am. Robin
N. Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
E. Starling
Am. Pipit
N. Parula
Yellow-rumped warbler
Yellow-throated warbler
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Field Sparrow
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Fox Sparrow
Song Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
White throated Sparrow
Dark-eyed Junco
N. Cardinal
RW Blackbird
Eastern Meadowlark
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
House Finch
House sparrow
Hap, Roseanna, Melissa & Patty
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