A couple of hours on the Sinclair Unit of the Peabody WMA in Muhlenberg County on 5 July yielded mostly resident breeding birds with many Henslow's Sparrows in song. A few Bell's Vireos were singing in the mid-afternoon heat and I heard one Willow Flycatcher calling from the shade where territorial birds have been since spring. A single Least Sandpiper was present at the Paradise ash basin, and six Great Egrets and a pair of Double-crested Cormorants were present at the TVA lake. I spent part of the day today, 6 July, photographing butterflies and dragonflies on a farm in Larue County with Floridians Lyn and Brooks Atherton who are up visiting relatives. Birding hi-lites were a nesting Savannah Sparrow in a Red Clover field with nesting Grasshopper Sparrows, and four Loggerhead Shrikes. Butterflies of particular interest were Ocola Skipper and Bronze Copper. The Ocola Skipper, a rare late colonizer from the south, is nearly two months earlier than the previous early Kentucky record according to the Annotated Checklist of Butterflies and Moths of Kentucky. David L. Roemer Bowling Green, Ky. ____________________________________________________ Sell on Yahoo! Auctions ? no fees. Bid on great items. http://auctions.yahoo.com/ ================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