FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] RPT MITCHELL LAKE THIS MORNING

["Scott and Glenda Record" <sgrecord@xxxxxxxx>]

As reported by many,  Mitchell is the place to be if your a shorebird or wader. 
 Having not been there in nearly 3 weeks I was overwhelmed by the numbers of 
birds there today.  Most all species that I observed have been previously 
reported.  Most interesting is the variety of peep age classes with juvenile 
and adult semi, western and least present.  I can't begin to identify every 
individual but if studied long enough most extremes can be easily found.  
Numbers are very rough estimates.  Highlights include:

Blue-w teal 20
N. shoveler  1
G. blue heron  20+
Great egret  50
Snowy egret  40
Little blue heron 10
Miss kite  1
Bald eagle 2
Black-b plover  1 (molting adult)
Killdeer  3 to 400  (white headed individual still present)
Greater yellowlegs  3
Lesser yellowlegs  10
Spotted sandpiper  1
Sanderling  1
Semi sand  100+
Western  10 ++
Least  75
Pectoral  sp  200 +
Stilt sp  1
Short-b dowitcher  2
Least tern  85 counted in one sweep of scope.  Likely several more scattered 
over the area. 
Black tern  4
Fish crows
All swallows except tree.     

Scott Record
Ragland KY