[birdky] Sloughs birding
- From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2006 22:39:18 -0500
7/6/06
6:45AM to Noon, 60º clear, occasional nice north wind, rising to 75º
Highlights & notes on locations:
268 slough: Great Blue Herons, Killdeers, Least Sandpipers. 268
slough is shrinking, the east end is dry.
Horseshoe Road slough: Great Blue Herons, Killdeers, Least
Sandpipers, Spotted Sandpiper, Solitary Sandpiper. HRS only has water
on the NW section and it is getting small.
Grassy Pond/Powell's Lake Unit: Great Blue Herons, Killdeers, Least
Sandpipers, Bank Swallows. Honey Cypress slough has a new gravel road
running back to it and no crops have been planted near it; but HCS is
almost completely dry.
Eagles Nest at Anderson Pond: 2 big juveniles on the nest edges, one
testing its wings in the wind, flapping and hopping in the air
several feet. 1 Adult in the same tree.
Pond Creek Marsh: 15 Wood Ducks, 5 Mallards. Wheat has been put out
as bait. No Common Moorhens seen or heard.
Hardy Slough: Great Blue Herons, Green Heron, Great Crested
Flycatcher 4, E. Kingbird. Hardy Slough is turning into Hardy marsh
with all the Lotus plants.
Shorebird Impoundment: 3 Great Egrets.
Charlie
Henderson Co.
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