Eleven birders in Calloway County celebrated International Migratory Bird Day May 12,2012. We had 119 species including three for the count week. Can't brag on the warblers, but the number of species was very respectable. Thanks to all volunteers especially four "young" birders who will hopefully carry on the tradition of us oldsters. Whimbrel 2 (count week) Canada Goose 32 Wood Duck 20 Double-cr. Cormorants 52 Great blue Heron 48 Mallard 19 Blue-winged Teal 5 Northern Bobwhite 10 Great Egret 1 Little Blue Heron 3 Green Heron 6 Yel-cr Night-Heron 1 Black Vulture 19 Turkey Vulture 4 Osprey 12 Bald Eagle 7 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 8 Red-tailed Hawk 2 American Kestrel 3 American Coot 3 Semipalmated Plover 6 Killdeer 17 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Solitary Sandpiper 6 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Semipalmated S'piper 2 Least Sandpiper 21 Ring-billed Gull 2 (count week) Caspian Tern 8 Forster's Tern 8 (count week) Rock Pigeon 2 Eur. Collared -Dove 2 Mourning Dove 179 Yel.-billed Cuckoo 1 Barn Owl 1 chick (adult and chick count week) Barred Owl 6 Common Nighthawk 9 Chuck-will's-widow 3 Whip-poor-will 1 Chimney Swift 70 Ruby-thr. Hummingbird 20 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-hd. Woodpecker 5 Red-bel. Woodpecker 26 Downy Woodpecker 25 Hairy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 9 Pileated Woodpecker 6 E. Wood-Pewee 31 Acadian Flycatcher 16 Eastern Phoebe 24 Great Cr. Flycatcher 26 Eastern Kingbird 20 White-eyed vireo 24 Yel.throated Vireo 5 Warbling Vireo 7 Red-eyed Vireo 21 Blue Jay 35 American Crow 54 Fish Crow 2 Horned Lark 1 Purple Martin 50 Tree Swallow 4 No. Rgh.-wg. Swallow 16 Bank Swallow 1 Cliff Swallow 150 Barn Swallow 92 Carolina Chickadee 37 Tufted Titmouse 61 White-br. Nuthatch 9 Carolina Wren 38 House Wren 11 Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher 19 Eastern Bluebird 79 Veery 1 Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 26 American Robin 296 Gray Catbird 9 No. Mockingbird 69 Brown Thrasher 25 European Starling 163 Cedar Waxwing 38 No. Parula 38 38 Yellow Warbler 1 Yel.-rumped Warbler 2 Blk.-thr Green Warbler 1 Yel.-thr. Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 4 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Pronthonotary Warbler 17 La. Waterthrush 8 Kentucky Warbler 3 Com. Yellowthroat 26 Yel.-breasted Chat 15 Summer Tanager 13 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 31 Chipping Sparrow 65 Field Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 6 White-cr. Sparrow 1 No. Cardinal 114 Rose-br. Grosbeak 15 Blue Grosbeak 20 Indigo Bunting 54 Dickcissel 10 Red-wg. Blackbird 69 Eastern Meadowlark 35 Common Grackle 117 Brown-hd. Cowbird 78 Orchard Oriole 14 Baltimore Oriole 14 House Finch 30 Amer. Goldfinch 62 House Sparrow 45 Melissa Easley Murray, Ky. ================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