FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] RPT: West KY July 23-24

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Mark Monroe and I were out in west KY this week.  Highlights included the
following:

July 22/24: 3 Common Loons on Kentucky Lake just above the dam (1 in
alternate plumage).

July 22: we saw a single adult Scissor-tailed Flycatcher at the KY 453 site
north of Grand Rivers with what appeared to be a full grown juvenile bird
sitting next to it on a wire west of 453 at last year's nest site. We
guessed that this indicated that the birds did, in fact, get off a nesting
somewhere nearby.  We could not find these or others on our pass back
through the area on July 24.

July 23: it was a good thing the Painted Bunting was still singing away at
his usual territory, because otherwise the lower Hickman bottoms were pretty
darned boring.  Nice weather with a north breeze probably had many
shorebirds moving, in part explaining the overall lack of birds on the few
spots of habitat present.  It appears to me that Black-necked Stilts have
abandoned what few areas they were in earlier in the month as they have all
dried up :o(

July 23: although the Ohio River has played tricks on nesting Least Terns
again this year, inundating nests in recent weeks, the nesting site at
Middle Bar, Hickman County, was thriving with a number of birds
incubating/brooding and some small chicks visible walking around and maybe
100 adults in the air.

July 24: with 75-100 Ring-billed Gulls in the vicinity of Ky Dam was a very
molty first-summer Laughing Gull on the lake above the dam.

July 24: Sinclair WMA/Paradise ash basins: 1 Miss Kite; the main ash basin
had 6 spp of shorebirds including a Short-billed Dowitcher and 2 adult
Western Sandpipers along with the commoners.

bpb, Louisville
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