Invasion of Dickcissels, Indigo Buntings, Common Yellowthroats, Gray Catbirds Shorebird Unit is really good right now. Duck numbers are dropping Highlights: Great Egret Semipalmated Plovers (Photos) Pectoral Sandpipers Dunlin Photos Long-billed Dowitchers (Photos) Wilson's Phalaropes Hairy Woodpecker N. Waterthrush Tennessee Warbler (Photos) FOS Bobolink (Photos) Sloughs WMA -Gentle P., Pond Creek Marsh, Hardy Slough, SBU, Henderson, US-KY Apr 30, 2013 6:35 AM - 12:10 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) 73 species Canada Goose 7 Gadwall X Mallard 1 Blue-winged Teal X Hooded Merganser 1 Northern Bobwhite 1 Pied-billed Grebe 1 Great Blue Heron 6 Great Egret 1 in overflight Green Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 2 Bald Eagle 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Semipalmated Plover 19 Killdeer X Spotted Sandpiper 3 Solitary Sandpiper X Greater Yellowlegs X Lesser Yellowlegs X Least Sandpiper X Pectoral Sandpiper X Dunlin 10 Long-billed Dowitcher 20 Wilson's Snipe 2 Wilson's Phalarope 2 Mourning Dove X Barred Owl 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker X Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 15 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo X Warbling Vireo 2 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay X American Crow X Tree Swallow X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher X Eastern Bluebird X American Robin X Gray Catbird 5 European Starling X Northern Waterthrush 1 Prothonotary Warbler X Tennessee Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat X Northern Parula X Palm Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) X Yellow-breasted Chat X Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow X Savannah Sparrow X Song Sparrow X Swamp Sparrow X White-throated Sparrow X White-crowned Sparrow X Scarlet Tanager 1 Northern Cardinal X Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting X Dickcissel X Bobolink 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark 1 Common Grackle X Brown-headed Cowbird X American Goldfinch X View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S13946605 This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Charlie Henderson Co. ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== When posting on BIRDKY, please close posts with your first and last name and your address (city or county). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post on BIRDKY, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS website at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/default.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS Photo Page to view photos of birds recently sighted in Kentucky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/kentucky_ornithological_society/pool * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison. E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx