FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Minor Clark Fish Hatchery: Raptors and Shorebirds

["Gerald Robe" <ghrobe@xxxxxxxxx>]

I had a really good day at the hatchery today, despite the heat.

The highlights of the day were the adult Bald Eagle flying over the Licking
River and an Osprey soaring above the fish ponds.

There aren't a lot of drained ponds right now, but there were several
shorebirds in the empty ponds:
Pectoral, Spotted and Least Sandpipers, Lesser Yellowlegs, Semipalmated
Plover, and (of course) many Killdeer.

Other birds of note:
Great Blue and Green Herons, Great Egrets
Wood Ducks (the babies are getting pretty big now)
Purple Martins and Cliff Swallows

Gerald H. Robe
Mt. Sterling, KY
ghrobe@xxxxxxxxx


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