[birdky] Cave Run birds
- From: "Craig" <ccarver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 18:19:36 -0500
Birding this cloudy gray afternoon in the Cave Run area was fairly
productive. A stop at the Minor Clark fish hatchery produced about a
hundred Canada Geese, a Belted Kingfisher (male), Eastern Blue Birds
(2), Great Blue herons (4), Buffleheads (4), Bonaparte's Gull, Ring
Billed gull, Mallards. Returning later in the afternoon (4:30) most of
the birds were gone except for the kingfisher and a handful of Canada
Geese with a lone juvenile Tundra Swan.
From the dam there were very few birds on the water -- a few gulls and
ducks in the distance. Working the woods along the shoreline: W.B.
Nuthatch, Tufted Titmice, Chickadees, Red-Bellied Woodpecker, Pileated
Woodpecker, Cardinals.
On the Ramey Creek inlet were 8 pairs of beautiful Hooded Mergansers
enjoying the still water which they had to themselves.
From the Twin Knobs shore I could see several hundred ducks across the
lake in the shallows along the Zilpo shoreline. Using a spotting scope
I could make out many Widgeons, Mallards, a few Buffleheads, and what
I'm pretty sure were 6 Horned Grebes in winter garb. I also saw a pair
on the East Fork Lake (Ohio) a few weeks earlier. Again I was using a
spotting scope and observing a fair distance across the lake.
Craig Carver
Maysville, KY
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