Planted grasses are growing up in most of the MSU1, but the far side has some
good shorebird habitat.
Highlights:
My first Little Blue Herons of the year (all imm.)
Great Egrets outnumbered the Great Blue Herons.
7 Green Herons
7 Species of shorebirds
KY Higginson-Henry WMA, Union, Kentucky, US
Jul 29, 2017 6:45 AM - 9:05 AM
Protocol: Traveling
1.6 mile(s)
Comments: Loop at Moist Soils Unit 1 and loop around the Lee K. Nelson
Educational area
41 species (+1 other taxa)
Wood Duck 4
Wild Turkey 8 flushed from roosting area
Great Blue Heron 20
Great Egret 23 JPG
Little Blue Heron 7 all imm. JPG
Green Heron 7 JPG
Turkey Vulture 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 2 JPG of imm.
Killdeer 12
Least Sandpiper 2
Pectoral Sandpiper 3 JPG, in front of 2 Semipalmated Sandpipers
Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 JPG 2 semipalmated Sandpipers with a Least
Sandpiper
Spotted Sandpiper 1 JPG, juvenile
Solitary Sandpiper 1 JPG
Mourning Dove 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 2
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2
Belted Kingfisher 4
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 5
Downy Woodpecker 4
Eastern Wood-Pewee 2
Empidonax sp. 1
Eastern Phoebe 3
Great Crested Flycatcher 1
Eastern Kingbird 5
Warbling Vireo 2
Blue Jay 9
Tree Swallow X
Carolina Chickadee 1
Tufted Titmouse 2
White-breasted Nuthatch 1
Eastern Bluebird 1
American Robin 26
Common Yellowthroat 9
Northern Parula 1
Yellow Warbler 1 JPG
Field Sparrow 2
Indigo Bunting 3
Red-winged Blackbird X
Common Grackle X
American Goldfinch 4
View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38375509 ;
<http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist/S38375509>
This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org ;
<http://ebird.org/>)
Charlie
Henderson Co.
