[birdky] Shorebirds today
- From: "Scott & Glenda Record" <sgrecord@xxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 25 Aug 2005 14:22:50 -0500
Spent all morning birding from Ballard WMA at daybreak to Columbus and back to
Ballard to check Dam 53 on the way home. The heron/egret roost at Mitchell has
dwindled somewhat but still contains 150 great egrets, 15 snowys and at least
50 great blues. Highlights including Ballard and Carlisle counties:
Miss Kite 6 +
Bald eagle 2
Semi Plover 10 +
Killdeer 200 +
Greater Yellowlegs 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Solitary Sandpiper 2
Spotted Sandpiper 6 +
Sanderling 1
Semi sandpiper 50 +
Least sandpiper 50 +
Pectoral sandpiper 25+
Wilson's snipe 2
Wilson's phalarope 3
Least tern 20
Swallows-several thousand
The real highlight was 2 juvenile W. phalaropes on the Miss river at Town Creek
Unit that let me approach to within about 50 feet and continued to feed and put
on a show for me. The sanderling was there as well but was a little more
skittish. It didn't sit still for many photos. A word to the wise, "you
can't out distance a sanderling; don't even try". The other phalarope was
still at Ballard as were the yellowlegs and the snipe.
Good birding
Scott Record
Ragland KY
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