body{font-size:10pt;font-family:arial,sans-serif;background -color:#ffffff;color:black;}p{margin:0px;} Yesterday afternoon I banded the 3rd Rufous Hummingbird of the season. This one, like the previous two, is an immature female. It is on Barren River Lakesouth of Glasgow in Barren County coming to the yard of Lew &Ruth Young. The Youngs also have an immature Ruby-throated Hummingbird that I banded; theclean white throat said female but the measurements were more like a male than a female. If anyone would be interested in visiting the Youngs, email meand I can provide you with contact info. After banding the hummers, Eddie Huber, Russ Thompson, and I checked a few spots on the lake for waterbirds. There were only scattered birds including about a dozen Common Loons, 35 Horned Grebes, at least a couple of hundred Bonaparte's Gulls, and a small flock of Ruddy Ducks. At the family farm here in Louisville, Mark Monroe and I have been banding Northern Saw-whet Owls. Since October 24th in five nights of netting, we've caught 9 birds with probably some additional birds heard. The migration has been sort of slow to develop this year; according the the owls' long term pattern of movements over the years, it was supposed to be a banner year, but there have not been a lot of immature birds and we're thinking it might be one of those years when a lot of birds are stopping to winter just to our north. Other recent highlights from the farm have included a single Pine Siskin one day last week, a few Purple Finches and Rusty Blackbirds flying overhead, "a bunch" of American Woodcocks on Friday night, and a very tardy Wood Thrush that Mark and I saw in the yard Friday evening (November 4th). bpb, Louisville ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx