9-4-10 BARREN/DRY CREEK UNIT Great Egret (3) Osprey PETER CREEK Blue-winged Teal (5) 9-7 CROCKER POND/LOGAN Pectoral Sandpiper (6) Least (6) Semipalmated Sandpiper Bobolink DRAKES CREEK/FRANKLIN/SIMPSON CO Lesser Yellowlegs (2) Semipalmated Sandpiper Least (2) Baird's (2) Solitary 9-8 BARKLEY/EDDY CREEK Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Baird's Pectoral Stilt Sandpiper (8) BARKLEY/KUTTAWA AREA Common Tern (~20) BARKLEY DAM Lesser Black-backed Gull (molting adult or near adult) Laughing Gull (juv) This has been an incredible year for butterflies and Common Buckeye is one of the species that has been particularly abundant. While scoping Ky Lake from the Ky Dam Rec Area on this date, I noticed a continual movement of Common Buckeyes from east to west across the lake dispersing from the Land Between the Lakes. A westerly breeze had them skimming the water into the headwind. As far as I could see up the lake there were hundreds moving across my field of view every few seconds. Mixed with them were a few expected late season species which I typically see moving across the lake this time of year including Monarch and Cloudless Sulphur. I then scoped the lake from the Little Bear Creek boat ramp and witnessed the same number moving across the lake for as far as I could see. I spent a total of about 3 hours at these 2 spots and this continued the entire time. It was the most remarkable insect phenomenon I've ever witnessed and the total buckeyes that crossed Ky Lake that day likely numbered into the hundreds of thousands. 9-9 BARREN RESERVOIR/BARREN COUNTY Pied-billed Grebe (2) DC Cormorant (scattered) Great Egret (State Park and Dry Creek) Caspian Tern (~15 scattered) Broad-winged Hawk (2 juvs) Eastern Screech-Owl (answered whistle at Narrows) Vireos: White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Warbling, Philadelphia, Red-eyed Warblers: Blue-winged, No Parula, Yellow, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Am Redstart, Wilson's 9-11 FULTON COUNTY/LOWER BOTTOMS Northern Rough-winged Swallow (with white tail) Broad-banded Water Snake 9-12 LAKE 9/FULTON Least Sandpiper (~30) 9-13 FULTON COUNTY/LOWER BOTTOMS Loggerhead Shrike (singing from the top of a 100' Cottonwood) Bobolink (2) Interesting butterflies for trip: Broad-winged Skipper Yehl Skipper Duke's Skipper Funereal Duskywing Phaon Crescent 9-17 BARREN/DRY CREEK UNIT Great Egret DC Corms Philadelphia Vireo Warblers: Blue-winged, Tennessee, No Parula, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Am Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush White M Hairstreak (butterfly) BARREN STATE PARK DC Corms Osprey Philadelphia Vireo Warblers: Blue-winged, Golden-winged (gorgeous male), Tennessee, No Parula, Chestnut-sided, Magnolia, Black-throated Green, Blackburnian, Black and White, Am Redstart, Ovenbird, Northern Waterthrush NARROWS Ring-billed Gull Bobolink 9-19 BARKLEY/LYON Red-necked Phalarope (2 resting in the middle of the lake) Black Tern KY LAKE GULL ROOST Lesser Black-backed Gull (4 adults or near adults) Laughing Gull (3 juvs) 9-20 MISSISSIPPI RIVER/CARLISLE COUNTY American Avocet Black Tern (2) 9-21 FULTON COUNTY/LOWER BOTTOMS All swallows except Bank, including Purple Martin LAKE 9 Semipalmated Plover Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpiper (~75) Broad-banded Water Snake at pumping station OBION WMA/UPPER HICKMAN BOTTOMS Bobolink MISSISSIPPI RIVER/CARLISLE 4' Cottonmouth (Too close...this one surprised me and made me curse!) Funereal Duskywing Lots of Fish Crows scattered including at Ky Dam and Great Egrets at the lakes and Mississippi River/bottoms. And for the Cicindelaphiles, species recorded on the trip: C. repanda formosa generosa scutellaris tranquebarica trifasciata punctulata rufiventris David Roemer Bowling Green ================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