- RBA * Kentucky * Statewide * May 12, 2004 * KYKY04.04.22 - Birds Mentioned: Green-winged Teal Black-bellied Plover Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Wilson's Snipe Wilson's Phalarope Forster's Tern Least Tern Black-billed Cuckoo Chuck-will's-widow Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Loggerhead Shrike Bell's Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Philadelphia Vireo Common Raven Bank Swallow Ruby-crowned Kinglet Veery Swainson's Thrush Golden-winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler American Redstart Swainson's Warbler Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak Bobolink - Transcript Hotline: Kentucky Sponsor: The Kentucky Ornithological Society, http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm Date: May 12, 2004 Number: (502) 326-0878 To Report: (502) 326-0878 or smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coverage: Kentucky and Southern Indiana Compiled: 11:00 AM, EDT, May 12, 2004 Transcriber/Compiler: Scott Marsh E-mail: smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is the Kentucky Bird Line, sponsored by the Kentucky Ornithological Society. This update is current as of May 12, 2004 at 11:00 AM EDT. The highlights of this update are: With the Spring North American Migration Count taking place this weekend, along with other reports, the highlights are many. Spring Warblers were reported in good numbers; the Mammoth Cave area included: MOURNING, BLACKPOLL, and PALM WARBLERS. Land Between the Lakes had Golden-winged; Pulaski County had WILSON'S, SWAINSON'S, BAY-BREASTED, CERULEAN, and AMERICAN REDSTART. Reported from Ben Hawes State Park (northwest of Owensboro) were: CAPE MAY, PALM, CHESTNUT-SIDED, NASHVILLE, AMERICAN REDSTART, BAY-BREASTED, and BLACKPOLL.The Black Mountain area included: 58 CHESTNUT-SIDED, 20 BLACK-THROATED BLUE, 10 CANADA, and 9 AMERICAN REDSTART. And in Hart County a NORTHERN WATERTHRUSH was observed. In the shorebird category the Calloway County count had WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, as well as FORSTER'S, and LEAST TERN. Hart County had SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SOLITARY SANDPIPER, and CATTLE EGRETS. McElroy Lake held 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES, a DUNLIN, BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, and both LONG-BILLED and SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Walton's pond also had 2 WILSON'S PHALAROPES, and a male GREEN-WINGED TEAL. Reel Foot Lake had LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS, and many LESSER YELLOWLEGS. Other birds of interest were ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK mentioned across the state, BOBOLINKS in Russelville, Peabody WMA, Fulton co, and Hart county. CHUCK-WIILL'S-WIDOWS in Pulaski, and Hart counties; WILLOW FLYCATCHERS in Peabody WMA and Pulaski County; LEAST FLYCATHERS were noted at Mammoth Cave and Black Mountain (17); VEERY were seen in numbers on Black Mt (20), as well as 3 in Jefferson County and 1 at Ben Hawes State Park. PHILADELPHIA VIREO, and BLACK-BILLED CUCKOO made the Jefferson county count. And finally a single RUFFED GROUSE was viewed on Black Mountain. Thanks for calling the Kentucky Bird Line. You may leave a report after the tone. Please include your name, the date, the location, and the time of your observation when filing a report. If your report contains rare or out of season species, please send appropriate documentation to the KBRC Lee McNeely, Secretary Post Office Box 463 Burlington, KY 41005 More information about the KBRC and KOS may be found at the KOS web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm. - End Transcript ================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