[birdky] RPT: Rock Wren update

The Rock Wren continued to be seen until late afternoon, quite regularly during 
the mid-day to mid-afternoon. I did not see it the last couple of hours before 
dark, but did not spend non-stop time looking. I will look for it again 
tomorrow morning. One time late this afternoon, our farm manager and I were 
talking as I painted on a barn roof and he asked if the bird was still around. 
I told him I hadn't seen it in awhile, then all of a sudden realized it was 
sitting only about 50 feet away, quietly singing (I guess only males sing, but 
I need to look that up), almost watching us as to say ... "hey, what happened 
to all the attention I was getting earlier in the day?!"
 
I may not be around some of Tuesday; today, the bird spent most of it's time 
working the concrete bases and pads around three of our five silos. During 
mid-day it spent about an hour and a half in a small pile of bricks and rocks 
that are filling a ditch in the pasture between the two groups of barns. Once 
it flew over to the far set of barns, but quickly decided to return to the rock 
pile. Unfortunately, a very territorial Song Sparrow kept driving the wren away 
from the rock pile, where the bird seemed most at home.
 
The silos where the bird is being seen are visible from Old Westport Road in 
northeastern Jefferson County. There is an entrance lane running up the hill 
from Old Westport Road. You can park out of the way somewhere here and walk 
along the road around the barns to view the silos. It would be best not to walk 
out into the cattle pasture unsupervised as we do have a bull in with the 
cattle, but most of the areas where the bird has been foraging are visible from 
the road side of the fence.
 
bpb, Louisville

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