[birdky] Weekend sightings

Some luck sightings, in addition to the yellow-billed loon yesterday and
today.  (Thanks again, Brainard.)
3/12 Rockport-Paradise Road.

* Displaying woodcocks at dusk.


3/13 Peabody Sinclair S5.  

* LeConte's sparrow. 7:40 a.m.  One in a clump of scrubby trees on the steam
plant side of the pond.  It popped up out of the grass and sat in plain view
for a few minutes, very un-LeContian, I thought.  Wonderfully orange face,
white median crown stripe.  (videotaped)

* Sedge wren.  One near the above in a group of thorny sticks (blackberry?)
by a small cedar.  Got a clear, close -- though brief -- look, and then
could not get it to show itself again.  Indistinct supercilium, speckled
crown, patterned wings, barred back, short bill.  Thought it was the
LeConte's when I first saw it, and wondered why the LeConte's was cocking
its tail.

* Rough-legged hawk.  One, beautiful dark phase.


3/14 Fulton Co.  Long Point, Reelfoot.  

* Lesser yellowlegs.  Three near the observation tower.

* Fish crows.  Maybe 5 giving their funky calls at the intersection of 94
and 1282.

* Rusty blackbird flock of 200+  along entrance road.

* Am. pipit.  Flock of 150 along entrance road.

* Dabbling ducks:  g-w teal especially common.  Also, plenty of b-w teal, n.
shoveler, gadwall.  At least a couple of n. pintails.  No geese.

* Wilson's snipe.


3/14 Sloughs WMA near Henderson.

* Shorebirds:  both yellowlegs (20 total), pectoral sandpiper (10), least
sandpiper (12), Wilson's snipe (10-15+).  Best spot was at the Wood Tract.

* Rusty blackbirds.  Everywhere.  I'd estimate I saw a total of 800-1,000 in
the fields and trees, generally in flocks of 50-200 birds.

* Barred owl.  Decided 3:42 in the afternoon was a good time to give its
call.


Ben Yandell
Louisville


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