Dr. Gary Ritchison has created a couple of pages for the KOS website of B.h.hutchinsii (Richardson's form of Cackling Goose) photos which I obtained at Griffin Park in Warren County on December 20. A number of photos has been included to accurately portray the variation in the birds present as well as provide a good comparison with the migrant B.c.interiors with which they were associating. Image S on the second page shows a pair of intermediate-sized birds (middle pair behind Cackling Goose in foreground) which I wondered was possibly B.c.parvipes (Lesser Canada Goose) or just small interiors. My thanks to Dr. Ritchison for publishing these pages. Links below: http://www.biology.eku.edu/KOS/goose.html http://www.biology.eku.edu/KOS/goose2.html Recent birding highlights are as follows: Jan 9 Snow Goose light-morph Walton's Pond Warren Co Sandhill Crane 3 McElroy Lake 2 southbound over Bowling Green Purple Finch female Shaker Mill/Warren Lapland Longspur flock of app. 100 along McElwain Rd Woodburn area/Warren Co Jan 10 Barkley/Ky Dams w/Robert Dever and Hap Chambers Common Loon 1 Barkley PB Grebe 40+ Scattered Horned Grebe 100+ Barkley 200+ Ky The rafts of divers above Barkley Dam and upstream from Little Bear Creek on Ky viewed from the boat ramp contained 7000 and 3200 birds respectively. Redhead 2 Ky Ring-necked Duck 200 mostly Barkley Gr. Scaup 100+ mostly Barkley L. Scaup appr. 80% both rafts Goldeneye 100+ Barkley 500+ Ky Red-breasted Merganser app. 100 Barkley 15 Ky Ruddy 200+ most Barkley Peregrine Falcon Barkley Dam Laughing Gull 2nd winter or adult Ky Dam Thayer's Gull 2 adult Barkley Dam Lesser Black-backed Gull adult Ky Dam Great Black-backed Gull 1st yr Ky Dam David L. Roemer Bowling Green, Ky. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx