FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Barn Owls and Few Highlights

[David Roemer <dlroemer@xxxxxxxxx>]

Last evening about dusk while walking along Bennett
Lane on the WKU farm, a Barn Owl flew across the road
while being harassed by a Common Nighthawk.  The
nighthawk chased it about halfway across a field.  The
owl was headed toward the dairy barn area. 

A friend of mine who lives in Smith's Grove told me
that his wife watched a Barn Owl catch a bat at their
security light recently.  He also said he hears owls
screeching in the cemetery near his home often.  He
brought me a feather yesterday that he found on the
ground at the cemetery amid a "huge pile of feathers
the same general color" and it was an inner primary
feather of a Barn Owl that had recently been consumed
by something.  Nice to know that there is still a
population of Barn Owls in Smith's Grove.


Not many recent birding highlights in south-central
Kentucky as most waterbird spots are dry.  A few are
listed below.

Snow Goose  
Adult dark-morph present at Griffin Park in Bowling
Green since 28 June.

5 July
Single Long-billed and Short-billed Dowitchers present
at Paradise.  An excellent side-by-side comparison. 

8 July
A pair of adult Bald Eagles at Guthrie Swamp near
Guthrie, Kentucky, with Tom Durbin and Mark Bennett.

23 July
At least 5 Sedge Wrens singing on the Homestead Unit
of Peabody WMA in Ohio County.

25 July
Juvenile Least Tern present at Paradise.

David L. Roemer
Bowling Green, Ky.








       
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