4/11 Long Point Unit, Reelfoot -- extensive shorebird habitat, but not much of it is mudflats Day started windy and raw, which probably kept #s and sightings down. * 2 great egrets * 500+ pectoral sandpipers (wouldn't be surprised if there were 3 times that many) * 2 solitary sandpipers * 1 dunlin (why only one?) * both yellowlegs, but no peeps * 1 ruby-throated hummingbird Land Between the Lakes * 6 osprey at Honker Lake (5 soaring, 1 on nest) * spring arrivals included: n. parula, yellow-throated warbler, white-eyed vireo, L. waterthrush, n. rough-winged swallow * 2 female red-br. mergansers about 5 feet from shore at sailboat marina * 50 or so black-crowned night-herons below Barkley Dam. Most were lined up almost shoulder-to-shoulder at the boat ramp on the east side. * Forster's and Caspian terns at the Kuttawa overlook. Peabody WMA. Sinclair Unit. * light-phase rough-legged hawk; S2 * vesper sparrow; S2 * osprey at Ash basin, but zero shorebirds -- all the remaining sightings were at the end of S5, and at the end of the day -- * marsh wren, singing * 1 Am. bittern, "singing" in flight and then in reeds; 7:03 pm * 1 Am. white pelican * 1 sedge wren; singing 7:25 pm * 1 grasshopper sparrow; singing 7:30 pm * Henslow's sparrows; 7:35+ pm. At least 7 different singers, all but one on lake side of S5. Ben Yandell Louisville -- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Ecartis -- -- Type: application/ms-tnef -- File: winmail.dat ================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