FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Ballard Co. shorebirds

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

Went to Swan Lake this morning on a tip from Brainard.   A good variety of 
shorebirds were in the fields just South of the lake.  After a couple hours 
there I headed to Mitchell.  By the time I arrived the sun had come out and the 
wind had shifted from the south and was blowing hard.  Apparently many of the 
birds that were there yesterday picked up and moved on.  There were no birds on 
the sandbar that is just forming at the levee.  The only birds at Mitchell were 
at the duck trap station and were largely Lesser Yellowlegs with 1 SH-b 
dowitcher.  There were a few common species at Cook Slough.  Highlights include

Swan lake:

Snowy egret  1
Semi Plover  40
Greater Yel-lgs  3
Lesser yel lgs  20
Solitary sp  20
Spotted sp  3
Western sp  1
least sp  50
Pectoral sp  30
Stilt sp  1
Cape May warbler  2

Mitchell Lake:
Snowy egret  2
Greater yellowlegs  4
Lesser yellow lgs  50
Solitary sp 10
Spotted sp 3
Short-b dowitcher  1

Cook slough:

Sora
Semi Plover 1
Lesser yllgs  5
Solitary sp  3
Pect sp  10

Scott Record
Ragland KY