FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] Highlights and Few Redtails

[David Roemer <dlroemer@xxxxxxxxx>]

11-30-06

SOUTH WARREN/LOGAN
Red-tailed Hawk (only 3 for trip/66 miles)


12-01-06

BARREN
Snow Goose  (110 southbound over Bailey's Point)
Pintail (2)
Gadwall (7)
Hooded Merganser (2)
Ring-necked (26)
Red-tailed Hawk (only 2 for trip/96 miles)
Palm Warbler


12-03-06

BARREN
GW Teal (6)
Ring-necked (8)
Bufflehead (20)
Bald Eagle (2 adults near Walnut Creek)
Chipping Sparrow (10+ State Park)

PEABODY
Common Loon (2 Paradise/TVA Lake)
EARED GREBE (TVA Lake)
Ring-billed Gull (120)
Bonaparte's Gull (6)
Short-eared Owl (6 Sinclair)

12-06-06

PEABODY AREA
ROSS'S GOOSE (juv still present at Island
Lake/Homestead)
Common Waterfowl
American Goldeneye (Paradise/TVA Lake)
DC Cormorant (3 TVA)
Bald Eagle (3)

I encountered only 12 redtails today while covering
204 miles of good to prime habitat (farmland/reclaimed
strip mines) in Warren, Butler, Ohio, and Muhlenberg
Counties.  The low number or redtails has been
apparent for the past 3 weeks or so in this part of
the state.  Four of the birds today were in a small
area on the Sinclair Unit and only 1 was observed on
the Ohio County units of the Peabody WMA.  One was
present on the WKU farm in Bowling Green.  That leaves
only 6 for the remainder of the trip...few and far
between.

Frank Lyne and I encountered at least 6 in the area of
a recently harvested soybean field in Todd County last
week as previously reported, but we saw almost no
others during our trip through prime habitat.  Newly
harvested soybean fields are a magnet for redtails as
removing the cover leaves the prey for relatively easy
pickin's.  It will be interesting to see what numbers
are like on upcoming Christmas Counts.

David L. Roemer
Bowling Green, Ky.

  




 
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