[birdky] KY BIRDLINE
- From: "Marsh, Scott" <SMarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <Mansmithf@xxxxxxx>, <beckhambc@xxxxxxx>, <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, <Gary.Ritchison@xxxxxxx>, "Marsh, Daniel" <Daniel.Marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:54:40 -0400
- RBA
* Kentucky
* Statewide
* August 23, 2004
* KYKY04.04.22
- Birds Mentioned:
Least Bittern
Great Egret
Black-bellied Plover
Semipalmated Plover
Greater Yellowlegs
Lesser Yellowlegs
Solitary Sandpiper
Willet
Spotted Sandpiper
Ruddy Turnstone
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Western Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper
Baird's Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper
Stilt Sandpiper
Buff-breasted Sandpiper
Wilson's Phalarope
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern
Black Tern
Common Nighthawk
Chuck-will's-widow
Whip-poor-will
Sedge Wren
Northern Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Yellow-throated Warbler
Black-and-white Warbler
- Transcript
Hotline: Kentucky
Sponsor: The Kentucky Ornithological Society,
http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm
Date: August 23, 2004
Number: (502) 326-0878
To Report: (502) 326-0878 or smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Coverage: Kentucky and Southern Indiana
Compiled: 5:00 PM, EDT, August 23, 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 August 23, 2004 at 5:00 PM EDT.
The highlights of this update are:
Highlights this week are mostly shorebirds. The eastern most report was
from Minor Clark Fish Hatchery. 15 BLACK TERN, as well as LESSER
YELLOWLEGS, SPOTTED, WESTERN, LEAST, and SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER, and
SEMIPALMATED PLOVER were reported in a bird club trip. The GREAT EGRETS
that visit there in the fall were also seen.
Fishing Creek mudflats also had 6 BLACK TERN, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER,
WESTERN, LEAST, PECTORAL, SPOTTED, and 1 STILT SANDPIPER.
The Sinclair unit of Peabody WMA turn up a LEAST BITTERN, 4 WILLET, 10
CASPIAN TERN, SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, and Sandpipers of the following:
SOLITARY, SEMIPALMATED, LEAST, WEST, and both YELLOWLEGS. 5 SEDGE WREN
were also noted.
Jonathon Creek held 5 CASPIAN, and 18 FORSTER'S TERN. Some of the
FORSTER'S
Were still in breeding plumage.
Smithland dam on the Ohio turned up 1 BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER on the
19th. As well as CASPIAN, and BLACK TERN.
Mitchell Lake in Ballard County also proved to be a place to see BLACK
TERN. Along with most of the other sandpipers mentioned, 1 BAIRD'S, and
8 STILT SANDPIPER, plus 1 WILSON'S PHALAROPE, and 1 BALCK-BELLIED PLOVER
were also observed.
West Vaco WMA in Carlisle County had the only RUDDY TURNSTONE mentioned.
It was on the Mississippi River.
Other signs of migration were noted In Tom Sawyer State Park where
COMMON NIGHTHAWKS were observed in large numbers. Also mixed flocks of
resident and migrant birds including NORTHERN PARULA, CHESTNUT-SIDED,
YELLOW-THROATED, and BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS were seen.
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
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