[birdky] RPT: A day of birding in Louisville 9/26

I went to Iroquois Park last Friday for about 3 hours and then in the evening 
went to Mcneely lake in Southeast Jefferson County unitl about dusk.  At 
Iroquois there was a push of warblers; 3 flocks containing 25, 25, and 50 
warblers at least.   All in all I had 62 species for the day, better than 6 
hours of birding for the migration count.

Iroquois Park 7:30-10:30am
Cooper's hawk chasing Red-sh. Hawk
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird-2
Least Flycatcher-1 calling
SEDGE WREN- seen in my final few minutes before I had to leave flushed up off 
trail in grassland on summit as I was racing back to my car
Gray-ch. Thrush-1
Swainson's Thrush-1
finally some mimids- Brown Thr. and Gray catbird
and vireos: 1 each of Solitary, Yellow-thr. and Red-eyed Vireo
Golden-wg. Warbler-1
Orange-cr. Warbler-1 in the top of the tree feeding?
Chestnut-sd. Warbler-7 +
Magnolia Warbler-20+
Bay-br. Warbler-25+-one flock was almost completely composed of these guys
Black-and-White Warbler-1
American Redstart-20+-odd to have less of these than bay-br. but amazingly that 
was the case
Black-thr. Green Warbler-6+
Ovenbird-1
Com. Yellowthroat-1
both tanagers
Rose-br. Grosbeak-4
Field Sp.-1-first sparrow I've seen at the park in awhile other one day of 
chipping sp.

Mcneely lake-6:00-7:30pm

Wood Duck-12 being fed by families
No. Mockingbird-1 all mimids for once
Tennessee Warbler-2
Magnolia Warbler-1
Cape May Warbler-1 imm. 1st of fall
Palm Warbler-6 1st of fall
Com. Yellowthroat-1 imm.
Wilson's Warbler-1
Lincoln's Sparrow-1 1st of fall

I was illegally pulled over on the offramp to the Outer Loop checking out the 
dump grasslands and didn't see anything interesting.  When I got back on the 
road I ended up missing my turn and headed South on Minor's lane.  there were 
some interesting man made bodies of water that were low with a little mudflat 
area covered in Killdeer and geese but it did provide the only Red-wg. 
blackbird of the day.  I drove down further and saw recently harvessted forest 
already grown up into large expanses of open field.  It was all private 
property, but it looked promising if nothing else maybe for winter count 
territory or for a wet spring or fall.  The same goes with a shallow body of 
water lined with willows off of National Turnpike that usually host some 
waterfowl and a heron everytime I pass it, it is good to know that there are 
still suprises in the county even after seeming to have covered every square 
mile.


Michael Autin
Louisville, KY
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