[birdky] RPT: McLean/Hopkins county floodwaters, 3/24/2015 ... 19 spp waterfowl & 7 spp shorebirds
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- Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:39:01 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
Jamie Baker, Teresa Graham, and I birded northern McLean and eastern Hopkins
counties yesterday, covering as many areas of receding floodwater as we could
find. I think we saw somewhere between 7500 and 10,000 waterbirds, but probably
could only identify about 1/4 of them due to heat shimmer and distance. We
stopped at various spots along KY 85, KY 1155, KY 2385, KY 254, and KY 281
where we could get close enough to waterbird concentrations to ID at least a
portion of the birds. We also checked Lake Peewee and had only relatively small
numbers of common waterbirds but including 4 gorgeous Common Loons.
Waterbirds by group in decreasing order of abundance (numbers are *very* rough
approximations of total identified in the entire area):
Lesser Scaup 2000+
Northern Shoveler 1000+
Ring-necked Duck 750+
Gadwall 350+
Mallard 300+
Blue-winged Teal 200+
Green-winged Teal 150-200+
American Wigeon 100+
Redhead 100+
Ruddy Duck 75+
Northern Pintail 50+
Bufflehead 50+
Greater Scaup 15-20
Ross's Goose 8 (along KY 281 sw. of Jewell City, Hopkins Co.)
Wood Duck a few pairs
Canvasback 3 males
Hooded Merganser 2 females
Canada Goose 2
American Black Duck pair
American Coot 1500+
Horned Grebe 50-75
Pied-billed Grebe 15-20
Common Loon 1
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Killdeer 100+
American Golden-Plover 47+1
Greater Yellowlegs 25-30
Lesser Yellowlegs 12-15
Pectoral Sandpiper 450-500+
Least Sandpiper 1
Wilson's Snipe 15-20+
Ring-billed Gull 500
Bonaparte's Gull 50
Herring Gull 1
We also saw a few American Pipits, Brewer's Blackbirds (5-10) at three spots,
and Vesper Sparrows (2-4) at four spots.
bpb, Louisville
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