[birdky] Horseshoe Road slough, Henderson Co.

Saturday (6/13) I drove out to check on Horseshoe Road slough, but high water from recent rains flooded the road and I turned around and gave up.
Today (6/17) I tried again. Even with more recent rain the road was no longer flooded. The water level in the slough is up though, flooding previous shorebird habitat. 

Black-necked Stilts 2 on far side of the slough feeding.
Hooded Merganser family and singles
Mallard Family
Ring-necked duck is still present
Great Egret 1
Wood Duck family: female and 3 small ones

I then drove around to Grassy Pond/Powell's Lake Unit (Union Co.)
16 Great Egrets among several sloughs and fluddles

268 (River) slough is flooded again removing shorebird habitat.
I stopped at the Sloughs Shorebird Unit: still full of water and filling with weeds. 
Only 1 Great Blue Heron present.
Flushed a big flock of young Turkeys along the road at the Shorebird Unit. They fled south into the Pond Creek brush. 

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Side note: Henderson Co. along with WMA has now completed a nice boat ramp onto the Ohio adjacent to High Ground Hunting Club property, in the Duncan II Tract. It is asphalt paved from 268 to concrete that enters the Ohio, with a large parking area. The road was graveled last year and the concrete laid down. 

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Charlie
Henderson Co.


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