June 19 MORGANS' POND/CHRISTIAN Wood Duck brood Blue-winged Teal (16 broods) Mallard broods Ring-necked Duck Ruddy (4) Pied-billed Grebe (2) Lesser Yellowlegs (likely southbound migrant) Black-necked Stilt (8) Ring-billed Gull (2) CHANEY/WARREN (down to 50' pool) Blue-winged Teal brood Mallard (3-4 broods) Great Blue Heron (27) Great Egret Green Heron (7-8) Joanie and I took a long weekend and toured western Kentucky and the Reelfoot area. June 20 KY DAM AREA Ring-billed Gull (~35) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (incubating or brooding) OPEN POND/FULTON Blue-winged Teal (3) Mallard brood American White Pelican (130) Great Egret (many everywhere) Mississippi Kite (scattered) Bald Eagle (several) Spotted Sandpiper Black-necked Stilt (2) Ring-billed Gull Least Tern (120+ w/ many on nests or courting) Loggerhead Shrike (only 3-4 seen in area) LAKE 9 Wood Duck broods Hooded Merganser (2-3 broods) Least Tern (many in fields along west side) STATE LINE SLOUGH Wood Duck broods Blue-winged Teal (4) Hooded Merganser brood June 21 WILLOW POND Blue-winged Teal brood Cattle Egret (2) Variegated Meadowhawks (dragonfly) OPEN POND Am White Pelican (As the clouds lifted, so did the pelicans. We watched the flock of ~130 thermalling before they left.) Black-necked Stilts SLOUGH ALONG LEVEE WEST OF OPEN POND Black-necked Stilt LAKE 9 Am White Pelican (~80) DC Cormorant (10) ISLAND 8 SLOUGH Blue-winged Teal Mallard brood From the Hickman overlook we could see that the upper bottoms were flooded. Great Egrets and Least Terns were seen moving around the bottoms. We also had a fly-by Northern Harrier. ARMADILLO (Roadkill Purchase Parkway near 9 mile marker northbound) June 22 KY DAM Area Common Goldeneye (female) Little Blue Heron (2 tree nursery) Scissor-tailed Flycatcher (pair feeding young) KUTTAWA Rookery busy with DC Cormorants, BC Night Herons, Cattle Egrets, and Little Blue Herons making feeding trips. MORGAN'S POND AREA Blue-winged Teal ( At least 41 broods. One female had between 50 and 60 ducklings with her which likely represented several broods.) Ring-necked Duck Ruddy (6) Coot (5) Lesser Yellowlegs Black-necked Stilt (8+) David L. Roemer Bowling Green, Ky. ================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