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["Scott & Glenda Record" <sgrecord@xxxxxxxx>]

Spent the entire morning at BWMA.  Migrant passerines are very scarce as are 
breeding birds.  Hopefully it's still a little early due to this cool weather.  
Shorebirds are worth the trip however with good habitat at lower Beaver dam 
slough, Burnt slough and Happy Hollow.  Highlights include:
Gr. wht-fr goose  1  (likely injured)
Blue-w teal  8
Ring-n duck  1
Hooded mergansers  4 adults and 12 young (2 broods-  8 yg and 5 yg 
respectively--photographed)
Pied-b grebe  2
Cormorant  1
Great egret  10
Osprey  1
Mississippi Kite  4
Bald eagle  2
Semi Plover  4
Killdeer  6
Gr Yell legs  6 +
Les  Yell legs  50 +
Solitary sand  15 
Spotted sand  6 +
Least sand  50 +
Pectoral  35 +
Short-billed dowitcher  2
Eur. c dove  1 (ragland)
Acadian Flycatcher  2
Gr crested fly  5+
Warbling V  10 +
Fish crow  5+
House wren  1
Ruby-cr king 3
Swainson's thrush  6
Wood thrush  6
Catbird  (foy)
American Pipit  50+
Blue-w Warb   1
nashville Warb  3
Parula  8
Yellow warb  1
yel-rumped   15
Yel-th warb  3
Palm warb  4
Redstart  2
Prothon warb  10
yellowthroat  
Savannah sp
Swamp sp
Wht thr sp
Rose-br grosbeak  1
Orchard oriole  3
Baltimore oriole 1

Scott Record
Ragland Ky
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