[birdky] Schochoh, Logan Co., weekend list

  • From: "Debby & Steve Tyson" <tyson9152@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 20:17:25 -0500

I was feeling better about this 38 species list until I looked back and saw
we'd counted 46 on this weekend last year! We did see some special stuff,
including a Merlin for the third weekend in a row. We watched a Kestrel
harassing it on Friday night, which provided a good relative size
comparison. It seemed to be gone today.we're thinking it waited to give
Frank Lyne a look, then headed out.

We added a FOS Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Northern Harrier and Swamp Sparrow,
though my highlight was a really good look at a lovely male Hooded Warbler
on the pond thicket yesterday. That's another house-list first. I also saw
a Swainson's Thrush in the thicket yesterday, for only the second time ever.


Today there were Yellow-rumped Warblers everywhere all day, including
several that were tagging along with the Bluebirds. I probably spotted them
together a half dozen times. I have seen Pine Warblers foraging with
Bluebirds, but Yellow-rumps behaving like this was new for me. Our hummers
were here on Wednesday and missing Thursday. I thought this was to be our
first autumn weekend list without them, but one buzzed past the window, just
at sunset tonight.

Stephen Tyson, Schochoh, Logan Co., KY

Species Name:

Northern Bobwhite

Turkey Vulture

Black Vulture

Sharp-shinned Hawk

Northern Harrier FOS

American Kestrel

Merlin

Eurasian Collared-Dove

Mourning Dove

Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Red-headed Woodpecker

Red-bellied Woodpecker

Downy Woodpecker

Northern Flicker

Eastern Phoebe

Blue Jay

American Crow

Carolina Chickadee

Ruby-crowned Kinglet FOS

Carolina Wren

White-breasted Nuthatch

Northern Mockingbird

European Starling

Eastern Bluebird

Swainson's Thrush

American Robin

House Finch

Hooded Warbler (House first)

Palm Warbler

Yellow-rumped Warbler

Yellow-throated Warbler

Brown-headed Cowbird

Red-winged Blackbird

Swamp Sparrow FOS

White-crowned Sparrow

Chipping Sparrow

Northern Cardinal

Indigo Bunting

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