8/20 6AM to 10:30AM 75º rising to 90º clear changing to partly/
mostly cloudy
So much of birding is being in the right place at the right time.
This morning I was at Honey Cypress slough (part of the Grassy Pond/
Powell's Lake Unit of the Sloughs) looking for any shore birds.
Contrary to last weekend when there were plenty of Great Blue Herons
(50) & Great Egrets (300), this weekend no Great Egrets, a just a few
Great Blues. I was watching some juv. Little Blue Herons (8). I had
been there about 5 minutes when I looked up and two White Pelicans
came soaring over checking out the slough. They flew from one end to
the other and back and then settled on the water. They seemed less
shy of me than the Great Blues.
The White Pelicans were a first for me in Henderson Co. and KY. I
have seen hundreds down in Texas but never here.
Even though it was hot and muggy the Pelicans made my birding day.
Highlights:
1574 slough: Great Blue Heron Killdeer (here and everywhere else)
Honey Cypress slough: White Pelicans 2 Great Blue Herons 10 Little Blue Herons 8 Juv. Cooper's Hawk
Gentle Pond slough & impoundment: Solitary Sandpiper Dickcissels 10 Orchard Oriole female Sedge Wren 2 (too many Deer Flies)
Pond Creek slough: Common Moorhen 1 (even more Deer Flies)
Shorebird Unit next to Hardy Slough: Great Blue Heron Little Blue Heron Solitary Sandpiper Least Sandpiper 3 (Deer Flies)
Charlie Henderson Co.
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