[birdky] RPT: Transient lakes and other locales ... March 16, 2008

Eddie Huber and visited the transient lakes near Woodburn in southern Warren 
County today; on the way back we ran by Cecilia to see if any cranes remain and 
Freeman Lake at Elizabethtown.
 
McElroy Lake -- I figured we'd run into a nice array of waterfowl in Warren 
County, but shorebirds were our highlight ... 6 species at McElroy Lake 
including at least 20 American Golden-Plovers, 100 Killdeer, 3 Greater 
Yellowlegs, 1 Lesser Yellowlegs, groups of 6+9+16+2 Pectoral Sandpipers (maybe 
more; hard to say what were repeats), and several Wilson's Snipe. The tinkling 
calls of Horned Larks and American Pipits were constantly around us, and a few 
migrant Tree Swallows flew past. One Horned Grebe was present and Green-winged 
Teal and American Wigeon (about 20 each) were the most common ducks with no 
divers observed.
 
Walton's Pond -- a bit more variety in the waterfowl line with a pair of 
Northern Pintails, a drake Blue-winged Teal, and about 4 pairs of American 
Black Ducks present among more common species.
 
Chaney Lake -- not many waterfowl, but we did add 3 more Blue-winged Teal, a 
pair of Northern Shovelers, 40+ Ring-necked Ducks, several pairs of Hooded 
Mergansers, and a female Lesser Scaup. A flock of 35-40+ Wilson's Snipe flew in 
and landed while we were there.
 
Cecilia farmland, Hardin Co. -- we tallied 75-100 Sandhill Cranes in groups of 
1 to about 50 at a half dozen sites in the vicinity. In with one flock of 20-25 
birds was a leucistic adult bird that is probably the same "white" crane that 
has been in the vicinity for several weeks. Heavy rains have filled many of the 
small sinkholes and swales in the area, and waterfowl were scattered about here 
with small numbers of at least 8 species seen.
 
Freeman Lake -- again, very few waterfowl with the highlight being 8 
Red-breasted Mergansers; also present were 5 Horned Grebes still primarily in 
basic plumage but at least 7 Common Loons in bright alternate plumage; two out 
in the center of the lake verbally sparred a couple of times with some 
beautiful wails that echoed across the lake.
 
bpb, Frankfort

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From: birdky-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of joe.pulliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Sun 3/16/2008 7:13 PM
To: Birdky
Subject: [birdky] Fw: Location of snow buntings in Boone county?



Thanks Lee. I thought it might be in the area around Petersburg.

By combining the data from eBird with GoogleMap, it looks like there could be a 
flock of snow buntings that winters in the valley of the Greater Miami river in 
Southeast IN - Southwest Ohio. Since snow buntings like shoreline grain fields 
and the winter colors suggest they would be camouflaged for the edge of the 
snow line, I would guess this flock might regularly drop into KY near 
Petersburg when a line of heavy snow goes through Southern IN.

Doreen and I dropped off a friend recently at the airport in Florence and drove 
back to Lexington along the Ohio river on highways 8, 20 and 338. This is a 
beautiful stretch of farmland I would highly recommend for a winter day trip of 
birding. The mouth of the Greater Miami and the ponds near\across the Ohio 
river from Petersburg have a number of geese and ducks. If you toss in Meldahl 
or Markland dams for scoters as Brainard suggested, that makes for a very nice 
day of birding.
Good birding,
Joe
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-----Original Message-----
From: lkmc9@xxxxxxx

Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:41:29
To:joe.pulliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [birdky] Location of snow buntings in Boone county?


The longspurs and snow buntings were most often seen along KY 20 1-2 miles 
southwest of Petersburg and also from Aurora Ferry Road which runs west to the 
Ohio River from KY 20. Both are likely long gone by now.
 
Lee McNeely


 -----Original Message-----
 From: joe.pulliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
 To: Birdky <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
 Sent: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 3:27 pm
 Subject: [birdky] Location of snow buntings in Boone county?


Doreen and I are thinking of making a trip tomorrow to try for irruptive 
species such as snow buntings, longspurs, scoters and hopefully crossbills. Any 
tips would be appreciated. Thanks, Joe Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T 
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