FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Sloughs Monday & Vacation to the Black Hills of S.D.

[Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

18 June 2007 (back from vacation)

6:30AM to Noon
68º Partly cloudy, to overcast and occasional very light rain, to 82º

I visited 268 slough, Horseshoe Road slough, Grassy Pond/Powell's  
Lake Unit, Pond Creek Marsh, Shorebird Unit, and Hardy Slough.
Highlights:
the usual suspects and

Wood duck family of 2 females and 5 young at 268 slough
Hooded merganser female at PCM
Bald Eagle near the nest and a good sized juvenal on nest edge at PCM
Am. Coot at Ohio River edge Union Co.

Notes on water levels:
268 slough is less than half the size it was 2 weeks ago; nothing but  
killdeer and great blue herons
Horseshoe Road slough: 3 pools left, down to 1/10th its size 2 weeks  
ago; killdeer, great blue herons and several groups of mallards
Grassy Pond/Powell's lake unit water is still too high for any  
shorebirds
Pond Creek Marsh water level is very low, killdeer and a single  
mallard (no Moorhens seen or heard)
Shorebird Unit: low water level, no birds, part of the area covered  
by water in the spring has been disked (disced?? sp?) up
Hardy Slough: one large area of water left, Great Blue Herons and  
Great Egrets and Killdeer. As with the SbU part disked up area. The  
top of the dam has been graded and the gate was open.
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Non-Kentucky birds seen on vacation (4 June through 11 June 2007).

My wife and I headed to western South Dakota. We did the Badlands,  
Black Hills, Devil's Tower, Wyoming, Custer State Park, and Wind Cave  
National Park.
While this was not a birding vacation (my wife is barely interested  
in birding) I did keep my binoculars with me and used them.
Life birds for me:

Western Meadowlark
American Dipper
Black-headed Grosbeak
Western Tanager
Black-billed Magpie
White-winged Junco
White-throated Swift
Violet-green Swallow
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Audubon's)
Red-breasted Nuthatch
Black-capped Chickadee
Spotted Towhee
Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
Mountain Bluebird


Charlie
Henderson Co.


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