[birdky] RPT: Birding on Saturday Oct. 31, Louisville; Blue-headed Vireo and others

I decided to stick close to home in the Southeast portion of Jefferson County 
with the intent on checking out good fields for cropland birds for the coming 
winter, and instead ended up spending all my time at Mcneeley Lake Park South 
and North sections.  Not amazing but still found a few birds I had yet to see 
this fall.

 

Mcneeley Lake Park, North 1:00-4:00pm

 

Mallard

Wood Duck-2 only seen in flight oddly

Great Blue Heron- one beautiful crisp brightly plumaged adult

Turkey Vulture

Sharp-sh. Hawk-1 ad. made several forays and shut birds down briefly

Red-tailed Hawk-1 imm.

Red-sh. Hawk-1 ad. perched low on Cedar Creek road

Am. Coot-2

Mo. Dove

Belted Kingfisher-1

Red-bl. Wood.

Downy Wood.

No. Flicker- 1 heard briefly very few of any of these woodpeckers

Eastern Phoebe-1

Blue-headed Vireo-2 one I watched for a few minutes gobble up and then 
regurgitate some unknown insect

Blue Jay

Am. Crow

Caro. Chick.

Tufted Titmouse-took me an unusual amount of time to find

Caro. Wren

Golden-cr. Kinglet-8

Ruby-cr. Kinglet-1

Eastern Bluebird-flyover

Am. Robin

No. Mockingbird

Brown Thrasher-1 probably imm. feeding quietly in brambles

Cedar Waxwing-a section of at least 800 ft. of trail was covered in waxwings 
and robins 400 would be a conservative count

Orange-cr. Warbler-1 I have been looking for one all Fall, it may only be the 
second one I have seen this year!

Yellow-rp. Warbler-4 low

Eastern Towhee-1

Field Sp.-6

Song Sp.

White-thr. Sp.-60+ 

No. Cardinal

Am. Goldfinch

 

Mcneeley Lake, South 4:00-6:00pm

 

Am. Kestrel-2 farmland en route

Killdeer-4

Mo. Dove

Red-bl. Wood.

Blue Jay

Caro. Chick.

Tuft. Tit.

Golden-cr. Kinglet-6

Eastern Bluebird

Am. Robin

Cedar Waxwing- smaller numbers

Chipping Sp.-Walking through a recently bulldozed field, I kept flushing line 
after line of sparrows and chased them around the field and through the trees 
until I decided there had to be something on the order of 350+ sparrows.  
Everyone I looked at, every call note that sounded came from a Chipping 
Sparrow, save for the lone Dark-eyed Junco of the day.

Song Sp.

Dark-eyed Junco- the lone indi. mentioned earlier

No. Cardinal

House Finch

 

I also briefly visited Melco earlier around 11:30am and found 2 Am. Coots and 3 
Lesser Scaup.

Good Birding,

Michael Autin

 Louisville, KY


                                          
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