[birdky] RPT:birding the suburbs Okolona and Minors lane 12/29

Yesterday I had to have some work done on my car in Okolona, so having no way 
to get anywhere or do anything I went birding.  I walked from Applegate and 
Shepherdsville up to Outer Loop then behind the Jefferson Mall up to Fern 
Valley Rd.  Results while not amazing were better than expected.  After I got 
my car back i went to a UPS owned "wetland" area off Minors Lane South and 
added a few more birds.

Okolona 9:30am-2:30pm

Canada Goose-20+
Mallard-14
Turkey Vulture-1
Cooper's Hawk-1
Red-shouldered Hawk-1
Red-tailed Hawk-2
American kestrel-1
Killdeer-45+- in a field right off of Fern Valley before intersection with road 
to the mall
Ring-billed Gull- flew over me early in the morning hard to find in that area
Mourning Dove-25+
Belted Kingfisher-2
Red-bellied Wood.-2
Downy Wood.-7
Northern Flicker-3
Pileated Wood.-1
Blue jay-10
American Crow-4
Horned Lark-heard over fern Valley
Carolina Chickadee-8
Tufted Titmouse-4
White-breasted Nuthatch-1
Carolina Wren-4
American Robin-35+
Northern Mockingbird-12
Euro. Starling-who cares
yellow-rumped Warbler-1
Eastern Towhee-3- in brush behind Target
Field Sparrow-8
Song Sparrow-22
White-throated Sparrow-15
Dark-eyed junco-1
No. Cardinal-35
Eastern meadowlark-1
House Finch-10
Pine Siskin-1 unbelievable flew over me twice just make sure I didn't call it 
wrong
American Goldfinch-10
House Sparrow-heard oddly enough

Minors Lane-3:30-5:30pm

Canada Goose-15
mallard-12
Great Blue Heron-1
Red-shouldered Hawk-1
American Kestrel-1
Killdeer-2
Mourning Dove
Downy Wood.
No. Flicker
Blue Jay
Am. Crow
Carolina Chick.
Carolina Wren
eastern Bluebird-5
American Robin-10
No. Mockingbird-2
Chipping Sparrow-1 in weedy field with many song Sp. and house Sp.
Song Sp.
Swamp Sp.-3
Red-wg. Blackbird-1 flyover
House Finch-4
Am. Goldfinch-10
House Sp.-25-hanging with native species in weedy field odd-should have checked 
for Eurasian Tree

a stop on National Turnpike around Sysco added a another great Blue heron and a 
small roosting flock of 10 Red-wg. blackbirds at dusk on Enterprise lane in a 
cattail ditch
not bad for improv
final note:There is a low, wet weedy field on the road that connects outer loop 
and fern Valley.  I walked the whole thing and came up with one meadowlark, but 
I swear with the quality of habitat on any other day I would have flushed 
Wilson's Snipe, Savannah Sparrow and Virginia Rail; this is small but quality 
habitat.

Good Birding,
Michael Autin
 Louisville, KY


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