FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] (RPT) BALLARD WMA TODAY

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

Checked a few areas on the refuge this morning including Mitchell, Happy Hollow 
and Goose Pond.  Most all the action is on Mitchell where there is good 
shorebird habitat around the entire perimeter of the main lake.  I accessed the 
bar from the levee as viewing is best from this side in morning light.  Most of 
the birds are congregated at the far north end.  Several waterfowl and good 
numbers of common species abound.  I counted 98 yellowlegs in one sweep of the 
lake.  Greater seemed to out number  lesser by a slight margin.  Most numbers 
are estimates.  Highlights include:


MITCHELL:

Great Egret  20
Can goose  a bunch
Green-w teal 20 +
Mallard  5
Pintail  10
Northern shoveler  10+
Blue-w Teal  75 +
American widgeon  10 +
Gadwall  8+
Bald eagle 2
Killdeer  25+
Greater Yellowlegs  60
Lesser yellowlegs  40
Least sand  50+
Pectoral sand  20+
Snipe  10+

HAPPY HOLLOW
Sora  3

GOOSE POND

Marsh wren 1
Killdeer 2
Least sand  10
Fish crow  5 --having a heated debate in a cypress tree in the middle of Goose 
Pond.  I can only guess that it could have been over the merits of flying 
farther South whilst it is 93 degrees here.

Scott Record
Ragland KY