[birdky] April 30 - May 2 birding W. Ky.

I also don't have enough sense to come in out of the rain.  
I was rewarded for my silliness with 145 total species (even though I wasn't
trying for a high species count), including 124 on May 2.  Total of 25
warbler species.

Some highlights:

Paradise steam plant ash basin (4/30) :  1 lone DUNLIN along with yellowlegs
and least sandpipers.

Fulton Co. w. of Hickman in Open Pond area and along levee (5/1):  several
groups of dozens of BOBOLINKS.  Maybe a total count of 120(??) birds.  Also
along levee, Lincoln's sparrow and plenty of orchard orioles.

LBL (5/2):  Not as active as I've seen it for passerines, but still enough
warblers, etc., to keep it interesting.  Top counts went to Tennessee,
followed by n. parula, yellow-rumped, and palm.  Also white-eyed vireos
everywhere.  Some of the more interesting other warblers:  CAPE MAY,
GOLDEN-WINGED, HOODED, CHESTNUT-SIDED, BAY-BREASTED.  Did not find
blackburnian, cerulean, or Am. redstart.

Sloughs WMA west of Henderson:  1 LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER in roadside pond
along 268.  Bird was toward western end of the extended pond that has an oil
pumping contraption at the eastern end.  I wonder if this is the same bird
Matt Stickel and I found March 27.  This time it had the decency to allow
close study, and to call when it took off one time.

Hardy Slough:  1 SEDGE and 1 MARSH WREN, about 8 sora.  Did not see the
black-necked stilts.  Shorebirds were mostly lesser yellowlegs, along with
greater, solitary and spotted sandpipers, and 10 or so Wilson's snipe in
scattered locations.

Biggest miss:  Couldn't find the scissor-tailed flycatcher on 453 in LBL,
despite two attempts of about 15 minutes each.

Other highlights:  Watching 8 e. kingbirds sitting on weedtops within about
a 10-foot-diameter circle at Reelfoot.  Hearing a CHUCK-WILL'S-WIDOW to my
left and at the same time a WHIP-POOR-WILL to my right at Paradise.
Listening to coyotes howl.  Seeing a bobcat.

Ben Yandell
Louisville


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