Odds and ends over the last couple of weeks are; 08/18 my backyard,
Great-crested Flycatcher, Black-and-white warbler and Baltimore Oriole,
08/19, Melco, 5 Black Terns( my first ever for Kentucky!) and little else,
Falls of the Ohio, reported Black-necked Stilt, single Cliff Swallow and
possible imm. Yellow-crowned Night-Heron, but light and distance made it
difficult to be sure, 08/20, UPS fields on eastside of 65 airport property,
a pair of Blue Grosbeaks. On 8/21 I drove to Western Kentucky to the
Colson Creek Campground in LBL to see the eclipse( and drove back starting
at 3 and got home at 1 AM) and had about 16 or so Great Egrets w/ a
possible Snowy, but was driving, at a wetland on the Ohio County side of
the Green River off WKP, as well as Spotted Sandpiper, Caspian Tern, Osprey
and a single Ring-billed Gull. On Thursday morning I had an imm. American
Redstart in my backyard. Today I went to the Anchorage trail and spent
alomst an hour and a half before I found anything of interest, but
eventually I found a spot near the lake where over a dozen redstarts were
flitting about with 1-2 Blackburnian warblers, a Magnolia warbler and a
Wilson's warbler and as I was leaving the park I had an Olive-sided
Flycatcher in a dead tree by the big, elevated bridge by the garden, a very
rewarding end to a slow start. List below:
Anchorage Trail, Jefferson, Kentucky, US
Aug 27, 2017 8:55 AM - 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
37 species
Canada Goose 25
Mallard 3
Black Vulture 5
Turkey Vulture 1
Mourning Dove 3
Chimney Swift 12
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 3
Downy Woodpecker 2
Pileated Woodpecker 1
Olive-sided Flycatcher 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 5
Least Flycatcher 1
Blue Jay 8
American Crow 1
Carolina Chickadee 12
Tufted Titmouse 8
White-breasted Nuthatch 3
House Wren 2
Carolina Wren 8
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12
Eastern Bluebird 2
American Robin 45
Gray Catbird 6
Northern Mockingbird 1
European Starling 12
American Redstart 16 they were everywhere in one or two spots
sometimes 5-6 in the same bush while 4-6 fluttered overhead in the trees
Magnolia Warbler 1
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Wilson's Warbler 1
Song Sparrow 3
Northern Cardinal 18
Indigo Bunting 12
Red-winged Blackbird 1
Common Grackle 8
House Finch 10
American Goldfinch 8
I would like to mention I have gone out to Jefferson Memorial Forest twice,
Beargrass Creek Nature Preserve twice and stopped by Melco and walked
around my local patch getting mauled by mosquitoes, ticks and chiggers
quite a bit before I had a little luck this last week. Persistence and
patience will eventually reward a birder, but time and luck is necessary to
see the most. Fall is heating up(or cooling down.)
Good Birding, Michael Autin
Louisville, KY
