We birded the upper Hickman bottoms, Long Point and Lake #9. Listed below are the highlights for the day. Wood Duck 25 Mallard 15 Blue-winged Teal 18 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Snowy Egret 1 Mississippi Kite 7 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 4 Semipalmated Plover 6 Killdeer X Spotted Sandpiper 8 Greater Yellowlegs 2 Lesser Yellowlegs 3 Semipalmated Sandpiper 12 Western Sandpiper 2 Least Sandpiper 85 Pectoral Sandpiper 10 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Buff-breasted Sandpiper 3 Eurasian Collared-Dove 1 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Loggerhead Shrike 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Fish Crow 10 Horned Lark X Northern Rough-winged Swallow X Purple Martin X Tree Swallow X Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow X Cliff Swallow X Northern Mockingbird 1 Dickcissel 1 Brown-headed Cowbird - many Hap and Melissa Murray, KY