A morning ride around the dams to scout for this weekends upcoming "Pioneer Pelican" van tours with the LBL Nature Station folks produced the following sightings. _http://www.lbl.org/CALOverview.asp?id=490#490_ (http://www.lbl.org/CALOverview.asp?id=490#490) If you have any interest in getting out to see the Pelicans now is the time to do it. Location: Barkley Lake Observation date: 3/8/11 Notes: Scouting for Pelican tours. Number of species: 24 Double-crested Cormorant 13 American White Pelican 250 Great Blue Heron X Black Vulture 4 Bald Eagle 2 (on the nest) Bonaparte's Gull X Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull X Rock Pigeon X Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Blue Jay X American Crow X Eastern Bluebird X American Robin X Northern Mockingbird X European Starling X Field Sparrow 1 - This bird was leusistic, almost all white with a few dark feathers. I tried to get a photo without success but it sure was a pretty little thing. Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal X Eastern Meadowlark X Location: Kentucky Dam Greater Scaup X Lesser Scaup X Wild Turkey 7 Horned Grebe X Double-crested Cormorant X American White Pelican 16 Great Blue Heron X Osprey 2 Ring-billed Gull X Herring Gull X Rock Pigeon X Eastern Phoebe 1 American Crow X European Starling X Northern Cardinal X House Sparrow X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Hap, Aviva, Carrie, Brook and Andrea 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