[birdky] RPT: No Red Crossbills on Wednesday afternoon

Eddie Huber, Mark Monroe, and myself birded the Dog Creek Campground at Nolin 
Lake from 2-4 EDT yesterday. We did not see or hear any Red Crossbills, but we 
did tally a relatively impressive list of 54 species seen and heard from the 
area. These included 4 Pine Siskins (in trees near the end of the peninsula) 
and a soaring sub-adult (probably first-year) Bald Eagle.
 
We had poised ourselves to make a run to McElroy Lake if anything interesting 
had been reported, but unfortunately word of the Red-necked Phalarope did not 
get out early enough for us to take advantage of that strategy :o(
 
With no word of rarities to the south, we headed back north to the Melco flood 
retention basin in southern Jefferson County where we encountered 12 species of 
shorebirds including 5 Stilt Sandpipers, 4 White-rumped Sandpipers, and decent 
numbers of commoner species. While walking the perimeter road for passerines we 
saw and heard 3 species of Empidonax flycatchers (Least, Willow--nesters there, 
and Alder [1]) and an American Woodcock.
 
bpb, Frankfort

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