- RBA * Kentucky * Statewide * December 7, 2005 * KYKY04.04.22 - Birds Mentioned: Horned Grebe Greater White-fronted Goose Ross's Goose Northern Shoveler Redhead Surf Scoter Black Scoter Bufflehead Red-breasted Merganser Merlin Sandhill Crane Killdeer Lapland Longspur Western Meadowlark - Transcript Hotline: Kentucky Sponsor: The Kentucky Ornithological Society, http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm Date: December 7, 2005 Number: (502) 326-0878 To Report: (502) 326-0878 or smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coverage: Kentucky and Southern Indiana Compiled: 11:00 AM, EDT, December 7, 2005 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 December 7, 2005 at 11:00 AM EDT. The highlights of this update are: On this first week in December the bird is Scoters, with 2 SURF SCOTERS seen at the Falls of the Ohio on the 2nd, a single SURF SCOTER at Freeman Lake on the 4th, 9 SURF SCOTERS on Lake Cumberland in the fishing creek area, and 2 SURF SCOTERS and 5 BLACK SCOTERS seen at Wolf Creek Dam on the 6th. Good numbers of other water fowl have been reported also. Some of the bigger numbers were: 500 WHITE-FRONTED GEESE on the lower Hickman bottoms along with a WHITE-FRONTED X BLUE CROSS on the 2nd; 350+ REDHEAD, 66 HORNED GREBE, and 55 BUFFLEHEAD, and a male MERLIN in the fishing creek area of Lake Cumberland on the 5th; and 100 RED-BREASTED MERGANSER at Barren River Reservoir on the 5th. A few Ross's geese have also been seen with a few at the lower Hickman bottoms and 1 at Twin Lakes pond in Somerset. SANDHILL CRANES have been observed in a number of places again this week. 65 were seen in Carlisle on the 2nd, 140 in two flocks in Frankfort on the 6th, 6 in the Wolf Creek Dam area, and 67 in Somerset on the 6th. 100 KILLDEER were counted at Barren River Reservoir. And approximately a 100 LAPLAND LONGSPURS and several WESTERN MEADOWLARKS were totaled at the lower Hickman bottoms. 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