[birdky] Red River Gorge follow-up report
- From: FrankRenfrow@xxxxxxx
- To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 19 Jun 2005 22:25:15 EDT
We just returned from a five day follow-up trip/vacation to the Red River
Gorge, 6/15-19. We were finally able to locate breeding Red-breasted
Nuthatches
at a significant distance from Rock Bridge. A pair was observed about 3
miles distant, in the Parched Corn Creek vicinity on 6/16, and a nest was
found
on 6/18. The Chestnut-sided Warbler was still singing on territory behind the
Sky Bridge picnic area when we left today (the 19th). We found several
additional locations with Swainson's Warblers along Parched Corn and Swift
Camp
Creek. The bird near Natural Bridge was still present on the 18th. This
Swainson's can be heard from a pull-off on the right going south on KY 11, 1.9
miles
past the Wolfe/Powell Co. line, from across the Middle Fork of the Red River
(actually just a small creek at that point). Most of the usual species
including Blue-headed, Yellow-throated and Red-eyed Vireos, Hooded,
Worm-eating,
Black-throated Green, Pine and Yellow-throated Warblers, Northern Parulas,
Ovenbirds and Louisiana Waterthrushes were found in good numbers, many of
these
observed feeding recently fledged young. We had wonderful weather for the
trip, every day was relatively cool and sunny and most species were still in
full song. All in all a great Eastern KY get-away.
Frank and Veronica Renfrow
Bellevue, KY
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