FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Falls of the Ohio Friday morning -- no avocet

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I'm posting this for Mary Walter.
Ben Yandell
Louisville
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I made it down to the Falls 7:45-9:00 this morning with high hopes. 
I did not get an avocet.

What I did see:

4 WILLETS
1 CASPIAN TERN
1 greater yellowlegs
green heron at basin
Osprey sitting on the wall
huge numbers of black-crowned night herons (immature and adult) ? 
didn't  see any yellow-crowned night herons while glancing
40+ black vultures sitting about
a handful of TVs
great egrets
great blue herons
several killdeer
several female and immature wood ducks
mallards and three ducklings
several ring-billed gulls (I suppose)
kingbirds in the trees

a peregrine dive bombing another (visibly molting) sitting on the 
fossil beds, then chasing it right overhead into the trees.  Later same 
bird? sitting on the fossil beds preening ? beautiful adult bird?so 
much for small shorebirds!

heard: warbling vireo, northern oriole, black and white warbler?, 
blue-gray gnatcatchers, cedar waxwings

Mary Walter
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