[birdky] Aug 16 and 19

Birding highlights from this week are as follows:

August 16 
Sinclair Unit of Peabody WMA with Nicole Ranalli and
Robert Dever

Great Egret 8+
Least Bittern
Osprey
Northern Harrier
Willet 4
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper 2 including 1 juv
Pectoral Sandpiper 
Caspian Tern  10  inc. 1 juv
Sedge Wren  5-6 Homestead Unit
Bell's Vireo 2
Henslow's Sparrow  many in song

Aug 19

Sincail Unit Peabody WMA

Gr. Egret 10+
Blue-winged Teal 7
Gr. Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs 4
Semipalmated Plover 2
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Semipalmated Sandpiper 4
Western Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpiper 10+
Pectoral Sandpiper 1
Caspian Tern 3
Bell's Vireo

Ohio River at Smithland

Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper 2
Spotted Sandpiper 
Caspian Tern 3
Forster's Tern 1
Black Tern 4

Mitchell Lake, Ballard Co. w/ Nicole Ranalli 
shorebird survey

Great Egret 30
Snowy Egret 8
Blue-winged Teal 19
Bald Eagle 2
Mississippi Kite  juv
Cooper's Hawk 2
Broad-winged Hawk
Fish Crow 2 
Black Tern 8
Black-bellied Plover  adult
Semipalmated Plover 6 inc. 1 juv
Gr. Yellowlegs 6
L. Yellowlegs 14 several juvs
Solitary Sandpiper 3
Spotted Sandpiper 3
Pectoral Sandpiper 208
Semipalmated Sandpiper 12
Western Sandpiper 2
Least Sandpiper 30
Baird's Sandpiper 1 juv
Stilt Sandpiper 8 adults
Wilson's Phalarope 1 juv

The number of juveniles present among Least and
Semipalmated Sandpipers was encouraging.  Most of the
Pecs were very distant, but of the 50 or so that I had
decent looks at I only saw one juvenile.  

dave











                
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