Kentucky Lake is close to reaching summer pool so the way to access shorebirds on Blood River is by boat. I paddled out on this glorious evening for a look around. Here are the highlights. Cattle Egret Wood duck Blue-winged Teal Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Greater Yellowlegs - 5 Solitary Sandpiper - 3 Spotted Sandpiper - 2 Least Sandpiper - 17 Baird's Sandpiper - 1 in beautiful plumage Forster's Tern Barred Owl Eastern Kingbird Pine Warbler Prothonotary Warbler - everywhere Hap Murray, KY ================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