Received a text that the Connecticut Warbler was found again by birders in
Cherokee Park, near Maple Road and the boardwalk area of Nettleroth Bird
Sanctuary.
Forwarded message, Bird not seen by myself.
Regards,
Rob Lane
Louisville KY
On May 7, 2018, at 11:44 AM, <brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
<brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I must admit to being astonished that Fayette County was able to come up with
more species than Jefferson County on Saturday. Kudos to the Lexington
birders for the effort! From what I expected and heard from the day, I would
have thought that Jefferson County had 12-15 more waterbird species than
Fayette would come up with, and that "make up" from miscellaneous songbirds
would come up short. I haven't looked at the particular lists to see how this
incorrect prediction panned out, but I wonder if anyone can put together a
composite list from the two counties and generate a list of the respective
species found only in Fayette and Jefferson counties respectively? This can
probably be done easily with a download from eBird converted to Excel or
something, but I wouldn't know how to do so in an efficient manner.
On the local birding scene ...
Connecticut Warbler ... Major Waltman reports the first local Connecticut
Warbler in Cherokee Park this morning about halfway up Maple Road.
Harris's Sparrow ... Some of us looked unsuccessfully for the Harris's
Sparrow at Stone Place Stables late yesterday afternoon and again this
morning. This morning, there were only a few White-crowned Sparrows where we
had seen 12-15 yesterday. Don't mean for this to discourage anyone from
looking for it, but it could have departed with a number of the
White-crowneds last night. I scattered corn around several places hoping they
would find it.
Melco Flood Retention Basin ... The deluge of rain on Saturday inundated all
of the shorebird habitat at Melco again. We had been having about 10 species
of shorebirds each day for a few days prior, but it will be several days
before good habitat returns ... :-(
Falls of the Ohio ... after being inundated ALL late winter and spring, there
are finally fossil beds exposed at the Falls; daily checks for fallout
waterbirds is warranted, BUT the Saturday rainfall is going to cause them the
beds to go under again for a few days. On Saturday, a Laughing Gull, small
numbers of Caspian and Forster's Terns, and 6 Willets were seen. NOTHING
yesterday.
bpb, Louisville
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