I brided the loop road off Hwy 76 in the Green River WMA and kayaked Casey Creek up to the bridge Sat. morning. The best sighting of the day was of 5 otter swimming and "playing" along the bank of a spit of land in Casey Creek. Casey Creek is at 675.2' elevation (very near summer pool), so no mudflats have formed for shorebirds. Great Blue Heron 7 Great Egret 2 Green Heron 5 Turkey Vulture 2 Wood Duck 15 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 6 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 9 (1 seen feeding a grown young) Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Belted Kingfisher 6 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 6 Northern Flicker 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee 5 Acadian Flycatcher 16 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 Eastern Kingbird 5 White-eyed Vireo 18 Yellow-throated Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 25 Blue Jay 6 American Crow 27 Purple Martin 22 Cliff Swallow 20 (counted 162 nests under the Casey Creek bridge with young being fed in some nests) Barn Swallow 3 Carolina Chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 19 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Carolina Wren 24 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 23 Wood Thrush 4 (1 pair building a nest) Gray Catbird 5 Northern Parula 7 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Prothonotary Warbler 11 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Kentucky Warbler 9 Common Yellowthroat 35 Yellow-breasted Chat 4 Summer Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 11 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 7 Northern Cardinal 20 Indigo Bunting 41 Red-winged Blackbird 6 American Goldfinch 10 House Sparrow 3 ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx