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["Sid Easley" <sid.easley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Highlights of a morning kayaking on Jonathan Creek (back creeks) were:

Approximately 100 cliff swallows frantically feeding their young under this 
short  bridge.  The parent seems to know which little mud hole their offspring 
is despite the crowded conditions.  

Two yellow-crowned night herons. 

Only one snake!!

And a possible Swainson's warbler calling.  It came from the thick canes on the 
bank of the creek.  It called for about three minutes and then stopped.  I 
could not see it.   I saw and heard two L. waterthrush, but this song lacked 
the chattered ending that the L. waterthrush sings.  It was more concise. Later 
I heard it calling twice. 

A Swainson's warbler would be a lifer for me, and I have listened to its 
recorded voice repeatedly.   But do I have the confidence to call this one my 
lifer?  As I cut down the rest of the jug lines that fishermen leave along the 
banks that eventually entrap birds and reptiles, I remembered the many worm 
eating warblers that I heard and later turned out to be chipping sparrows.  I 
decided I best not mark this Swainson's in my life list.  

Still wondering, 
Melissa Easley
Murray, Ky.