I birded both the sloughs off of Horseshoe Road, and the ‘back’ sloughs accessed via a farm road off of 1574. The portion off of 1574 was much larger and had more birds. KY Horseshoe Road sloughs, Henderson, US-KY Jul 25, 2014 6:30 AM - 9:30 AM Protocol: Traveling 3.0 mile(s) 30 species Mallard 8 Hooded Merganser 2 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 65 Great Egret 100 Bald Eagle 3 1 imm & 2 adults Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 100 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Lesser Yellowlegs 7 Least Sandpiper 40 Pectoral Sandpiper 15 Semipalmated Sandpiper 3, thnks to bpb for the ID Short-billed Dowitcher 1 Mourning Dove X Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 American Kestrel 1 American Crow X Horned Lark 10 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 150 most in one group on power lines, pix of some of them Purple Martin 8 Barn Swallow X American Robin 1 European Starling X Common Yellowthroat 1 Song Sparrow 11 Northern Cardinal X Indigo Bunting X Red-winged Blackbird X American Goldfinch 3 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S19216220 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Charlie Henderson Co.