Highlights from a trip with David Brown are listed below. The Long Point Unit of Reelfoot hosted most of the shorebirds and the Lower Hickman Bottoms are relatively dry. The upper bottoms are flooded. BARKLEY DAM Lesser Scaup Am White Pelican Red-breasted Merganser Great Egret Cattle Egret (adjacent field) Black-crowned Night-Heron Ring-billed, Herring, and Bonaparte's Gulls Caspian and Forster's Terns KENTUCKY DAM Lesser Scaup Ring-necked Duck Common Goldeneye Common Loon Lesser Black-backed Gull (2) Glaucous Gull Great Black-backed Gull Fish Crow FULTON COUNTY/LOWER HICKMAN BOTTOMS Gadwall American Wigeon Both Teal No Shoveler Hooded Merganser Snowy Egret Little Blue Heron Bald Eagle (15+ w/adult and 2 chicks on Lake 9 nest) Red-tailed Hawk (juv Krider's) Semipalmated Plover Black-necked Stilt (3 Phillippy Pits, Tn) Both Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Pectoral Sandpiper Dunlin Long-billed Dowitcher (14) Wilson's Phalarope (2) Fish Crow (many scattered) We encountered a kettle of crows thermal soaring high over the Purchase Parkway which we deemed as Fish. Fish Crows regularly thermal soar whereas I have never seen American Crows engage in sustained thermal soaring. Other nice birds and spring arrivals encountered along the way: Northern Bobwhite Red-shouldered Hawk Eurasian Collared-Dove Barred Owl Red-headed Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird Loggerhead Shrike White-eyed, Yellow-throated, Warbling, and Red-eyed Vireos Ruby-crowned Kinglet No Parula Yellow-rumped Warbler (gorgeous males) Yellow-throated Pine Prairie Palm Prothonotary Common Yellowthroat Summer Tanager Savannah Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Orchard and Baltimore Orioles David L. Roemer Bowling Green ================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