FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Sept. 3-5 pond birds

["Lyneart" <lyneart@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sunday morning, my neighbor's drowned out soybean bottom just looked like a 
dark mass in a sea of green to the naked eye. I was surprised when the scope 
revealed 11 Canada Geese and a female Wood Duck and still lots of water, more 
than 3 weeks after the big rain that filled this long dry pond bed. 
  Yesterday afternoon a calling Greater Yellowlegs flew over our place but 
didn't land. I followed it as far as I could with binoculars and saw it join up 
with a second individual - probably the reason it was calling.
  This morning, on the way to town, we stopped at Brown's Pond. On the end 
opposite our point of view,  a Great Egret was resting on one leg with its head 
tucked  under its wing. I approached to within a couple of hundred feet. It 
peaked out at me, then went on resting. My not too sharp photos revealed 
something dangling from its tucked in leg, muddy fishing line, maybe? 
A Pied-billed Grebe put in a brief surface appearance before we left. 
Frank Lyne frank@xxxxxxxxxxx near Dot in Logan County, KY