[birdky] Sloughs Wednesday.

18 June 2008
4AM came awfully early this morning. Especially after I stayed up and watched the NBA Finals and the celebration last night.
I was up at 4AM so I could get to Pond Creek Marsh before daylight to enjoy the sunrise and early birds. 

5AM to 10:30AM
57º rising to 79º, clear calm. I could have used some wind: the gnats were driving me crazy.
Pond Creek Marsh, McDonald Landing Road, West Franklin Road, Hardy Slough, Shorebird Unit. 

Highlights:

Least Bittern at PCM
Great Egrets: 1 overflew PCM, 8 at Hardy Slough
Orchard Oriole: 1 female I keep seeing at Hardy Slough dam
Baltimore Oriole: 1 male at PCM
Dickcissels: everywhere, 1 at PCM just a few feet outside my Jeep posing for photos 
LARK Sparrow: 1 at McDonald Landing Road posing for great photos.
West Franklin Road: just some Killdeer, it looks like the water there should have some shorebirds, the shorebirds do not agree. 
Shorebird Unit: just some Great Blue Herons

Non-bird:
Fox on McDonald Landing Road
Gnats everywhere.

For what its worth: we have not had any infestation of Cicadas at all.

Charlie
Henderson Co.


================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS=============
The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign
your messages with first & last name, city, &
state abbreviation.
--------------------------------------------------
To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to:
birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
--------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, send e-mail to:
birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society
web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY
E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx

Other related posts: