[birdky] RPT:GBBC, Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville 02/14;Pine Siskins, Fox Sparrows and something else(not crossbills)

From 12:30-4:30pm I parked my car at the administration building at Cave Hill 
and proceeded to walk the entire back side of the property.  Highlights were 
Pine Siskins and the two good birds that bookended my otherwise slow trip.  
Walking along the road from the admin. building I went towards the ponds in the 
opposite direction from the main lake, and it was relatively birdless.  I was 
about to try and find a chickadee when the sounding of whirring wings coming 
towards me and then banking to the right confirmed an American Woodcock!  i has 
been a long time since I have flushed one of these in Kentucky, one of the 
better looks in good light I've had.  Then as the day drew to close I was about 
to leave through the Baxter Ave. entrance, when I saw a bird scratching behind 
the guard building, and I soon found myself watching four foraging Fox Sparrows 
that i watched until 4:45, when they close the gates.

Cave Hill Cemetery 12:30-4:45pm, pt. cl., cool with intermittent breeze in the 
50's
Canada Goose
Mallard
Turkey Vulture-1
Cooper's Hawk-2
Red-shouldered Hawk-1 ad. and 1 tame imm.
Red-tailed Hawk-1
American Woodcock-1
Rock Dove
Mourning Dove
Red-bellied Woodpecker-4
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-1
Downy Woodpecker-8
Northern Flicker-2
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
White-breasted Nuthatch-1 
Golden-crowned Kinglet-2 the first I've seen in awhile
American Robin
Northern Mockingbird-3
Euro. Star.
Eastern Towhee-5 including one making a whole assortment of low gurgling calls
Fox Sparrow-4
Song Sparrow-28
White-throated Sparrow-64
Dark-eyed Junco-82
Northern Cardinal
House Finch
Pine Siskin-6 scattered and 8 sitting in a tree
American Goldfinch-42

biggest misses(some of which may have been due to the constant wind)
American Black Ducks seemed to have moved on
great Blue heron
belted kingfisher
Wrens
Ruby-cr. kinglet
no thrasher but should be coming back any day now
Cedar waxwings dissappeared with that last arctic freeze
other sparrows, blackbirds and of course no crossbills

Good Birding,
Michael Autin

Louisville, KY


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