[birdky] Re: Lark Sparrows and Western Ky

After David left us friday we saw a Least Tern chick at Open Pond. It was fuzzy down and running between its parents. 


Hap



On Jul 12, 2008, at 10:10 AM, David Roemer <dlroemer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 7 July, I checked the area along Vance Road in Warren County where I had watched a pair of Lark Sparrows make feeding trips to their nest on 14 June. During the latter visit, I observed 4 birds on the wires and in the adjacent bean field. I also observed 2 birds in another bean field less than a mile south of there where I had seen Lark Sparrows earlier in the year. 

An American Coot continues at Griffin Park in Warren County.
A trip to western Kentucky on Thursday and Friday of this week yielded the following observations: 

10 July

MORGAN POND/CHRISTIAN
The main pool is down to a small pond and will likely be gone if a few days. 

Canada Goose broods
Blue-winged Teal broods
Wood Duck broods
Mallard Broods
Ring-necked Duck
American Coot (3)
Pied-billed Grebe (2)
SANDHILL CRANE
Lesser Yellowlegs (6)
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (9)
Short-billed Dowitcher (3)
Black-necked Stilt (a pair continues with distraction displays)

KY DAM
Ring-billed Gull (~40)
Herring Gull (adult)

FULTON COUNTY

LAKE 9
American White Pelican (4)
Willet

OPEN POND
Blue-winged Teal
Semipalmated Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs (10-12)
Solitary Sandpiper
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (75+)
Pectoral Sandpiper (25+)
Short-billed Dowitcher
Least Tern (few with much of area having been plowed)
Black-necked Stilt (family group of 2 adults and 2 full-grown juvs presumed to have been migrants, and a pair of adults with 3 downy juvs) 


11 July

FULTON COUNTY

FISHPOND WETLAND
Blue-winged Teal broods
Wood Duck broods
Mallard broods
LESSER SCAUP (male)
Hooded Merganser brood

OPEN POND with Hap Chambers
Black-necked Stilt (pair w/3 downy juvs)
Solitary, Least, and Pectoral Sandpipers
Few Least Terns
Grasshopper Sparrow singing

WILLOW POND w/Hap
Blue-winged Teal (broods w/22 present)
Other birds of interest observed in Fulton County were scattered Great Egrets, Mississippi Kites, Fish Crows, Red-headed Woodpeckers, and only 2 Loggerhead Shrikes. I also saw a road-kill Armadillo just south of the state line in Tennessee. The Phillippy Pits had a good number of Great Egrets and Great Blue Herons present.
The Upper Hickman bottoms are becoming exposed with the river dropping with many Least Terns present. 

KY DAM
Ring-billed Gull (130)
Herring Gull

MORGAN POND
Blue-winged Teal (350-400)
Ring-necked Duck
American Coot (3)
Pied-billed Grebe
Black-necked Stilt pair
Spotted Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (11)
Short-billed Dowitcher

David L. Roemer
Bowling Green, Ky.



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