[birdky] Rpt: Cave Run Lake

Saturday Feb 14 2009

Trip Leader Jim Williams

Jim Hodge, Jacki Van Willigen, David Lang, Phyllis Deal, Lou Shain, Ramesh Bhattlex, Caroline Goes, Ann & Dan Murphy

 

Horned Grebe  1

Great Blue Heron  1

Canada Goose  50

Mallard  2

Canvasback  30

Bufflehead  10

Bald Eagle  1

Red-shouldered Hawk  2

Red-tailed Hawk  1

Golden Eagle*  1 (immature)

American Kestrel  1

American Coot  12

Ring-billed Gull  300

American Herring Gull  3 (immatures)

Bonaparte's Gull  4

Mourning Dove  1

Belted Kingfisher  2

Red-bellied Woodpecker  2

Downy Woodpecker  8

Northern Flicker  1

Pileated Woodpecker  3

Eastern Phoebe  1

Carolina Wren  2

Eastern Bluebird 15

American Robin  40

Carolina Chickadee  12

Tufted Titmouse  6

White-breasted Nuthatch  1

Blue Jay  10

American Crow  30

European Starling  15

Purple Finch  6 (including 2 males)

American Goldfinch  25

Yellow-rumped Warbler  25

American Tree Sparrow  4

Field Sparrow  6

Song Sparrow  1

Dark-eyed Junco  10

Northern Cardinal  3

Red-winged Blackbird  1

Common Grackle  2

Rock Pigeon  15 (back in Lexington)

 

Note on the immature Golden Eagle. Jim could not decide if this bird was indeed an eagle or if it was in fact a Rough-legged Hawk. He believed that the bill was too small for the bird to be an eagle. The field marks observed was an overall dark bird. The tail was white with a back terminal band with a clear distinction between the black and white, seen from both the top and the bottom. There were also distinct white patches in the wings at the base of the primaries also seen on both the top and bottom of the wing. A tawny color was also obsereved on the top of the wings across the shoulders. Observations of the head was noted by one to show a little tawny coloring and by others to be light, almost white in some light.