[birdky] Dams and Fulton 22 April 2009

Highlights from a trip with David Brown are listed below.  The Long Point Unit 
of Reelfoot hosted most of the shorebirds and the Lower Hickman Bottoms are 
relatively dry.  The upper bottoms are flooded.

BARKLEY DAM
Lesser Scaup
Am White Pelican
Red-breasted Merganser
Great Egret
Cattle Egret (adjacent field)
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Ring-billed, Herring, and Bonaparte's Gulls
Caspian and Forster's Terns

KENTUCKY DAM
Lesser Scaup
Ring-necked Duck
Common Goldeneye
Common Loon
Lesser Black-backed Gull (2)
Glaucous Gull
Great Black-backed Gull
Fish Crow

FULTON COUNTY/LOWER HICKMAN BOTTOMS
Gadwall
American Wigeon
Both Teal
No Shoveler
Hooded Merganser
Snowy Egret
Little Blue Heron
Bald Eagle (15+ w/adult and 2 chicks on Lake 9 nest)
Red-tailed Hawk (juv Krider's)
Semipalmated Plover
Black-necked Stilt (3 Phillippy Pits, Tn)
Both Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dunlin
Long-billed Dowitcher (14)
Wilson's Phalarope (2)
Fish Crow (many scattered)

We encountered a kettle of crows thermal soaring high over the Purchase Parkway 
which we deemed as Fish.  Fish Crows regularly thermal soar whereas I have 
never seen American Crows engage in sustained thermal soaring.

Other nice birds and spring arrivals encountered along the way:
Northern Bobwhite
Red-shouldered Hawk
Eurasian Collared-Dove
Barred Owl
Red-headed Woodpecker
Eastern Kingbird
Loggerhead Shrike
White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Warbling, and Red-eyed Vireos
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
No Parula
Yellow-rumped Warbler (gorgeous males)
Yellow-throated
Pine 
Prairie
Palm
Prothonotary
Common Yellowthroat
Summer Tanager
Savannah Sparrow
Swamp Sparrow
Blue Grosbeak
Indigo Bunting
Orchard and Baltimore Orioles

David L. Roemer
Bowling Green




  













      
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