[birdky] Sloughs Wednesday & Thursday

Wednesday 5/23/07
268 slough, Horseshoe Road slough, Grassy Pond/Powell's Lake Unit, Gentle Pond, Pond Creek Marsh 

Highlights:

6AM to Noon
I started out at Horseshoe Road slough; walked in at the east end and the west end. But did not spend a lot of time there: Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Plovers, 1 Mallard, 1 Dunlin, 1 Great Blue Heron, 1 Great Egret.
Then Grassy Pond/Powell's Lake Unit (Union Co.) Great Egret, Wood Duck family, Belted Kingfisher, Willow Flycatcher, Yellow Warbler, Orchard Oriole. 

Gentle Pond: Bald Eagle, Summer Tanager, Ruby-throated Hummingbird.
Pond Creek Marsh: 3 Common Moorhens calling, Bald Eagle 1 adult and 1 Juvie seen at nest, Red-shouldered Hawk, 4 Canada Geese with about 7 big Juvies, Swainson's Thrush.
Brainard and I apparently birded the Horseshoe Road slough on the same day but did not meet up. He had more luck as reported by Mark Monroe. 


Thursday 5/24/07

Highland Creek Unit, Horseshoe Road slough, Shorebird Unit.

Highlights:

6AM to 2PM
I haven't been to Highland Creek (Union Co.) since midwinter so I thought I would start out there for a change. Yellow-crowned Night Herons 2, Red-shouldered Hawk, Turkey 2, 4, and 6, Turkey Vulture 14 flushed off of an oil-well tank, Red-headed Woodpecker 3 (they are getting harder to find), Fish Crows several, Swainson's Thrush. (While at Highland Creek it started off clear, clouded up and I got 20 minutes of light rain and then it cleared up again. It wasn't supposed to do that today.)
With the possibility of a Red-necked Phalarope I headed off the Horseshoe Road. I parked at the east end and walked all the way to the west end and back. No Red-necked Phalarope spotted at all. I haven't walked that distance there since sometime last year. Other birds seen: Dunlin 6, Semi-palmated Sandpipers, Semi-palmated Plovers, Mallard family, Canada Geese 25, Black-bellied Plovers 4 ( I assume the same that I saw this past weekend), Savannah Sparrows 2. 

Shorebird Unit: Great Egrets 5, Great-blue Heron 1

Charlie
Henderson Co.

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