---Cave Hill Cemetery, Jefferson, US-KY Sep 24, 2011 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) Comments: Leading the bi-annual Audubon / Louisville Nature Center 'Fall' 'Intro to Birding' Cave Hill trip...(w/ Michael Autens excellent help!; 9 observers total); 10+ white Farm Ducks & 5+ farm geeseat Office Lake; 5 odd un-ID'd mostly black small ducks in seperate flock at pond(d.stewart has picture) 32 species Canada Goose (Branta canadensis) 2 Mute Swan (Cygnus olor) 3 (resident pond-birds, sometimes found at Willow Pond nearby )Coyote Predated one the night before Wood Duck (Aix sponsa) 4 Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) 30 Pied-billed Grebe (Podilymbus podiceps) 1 office pond; first stop Double-crested Cormorant (Phalacrocorax auritus) 1 quarry Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias) 2 main pond, stop 1, & below scattering pond, by creek Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) 1 landed by office pond in tree by dam separating upper & lower ponds, then flew (goog looks!) Mourning Dove (Zenaida macroura) 3 Chimney Swift (Chaetura pelagica) 15 Red-headed Woodpecker (Melanerpes erythrocephalus) 1 Flyover at Quarry, (rarely, if ever, never seen in park?) Red-bellied Woodpecker (Melanerpes carolinus) 1 Downy Woodpecker (Picoides pubescens) 1 Northern Flicker (Colaptes auratus) 1 Olive-sided Flycatcher (Contopus cooperi) 2 top of bare tree near quarry, long good looks w/ 2 scopes while "flycatching" Eastern Phoebe (Sayornis phoebe) 3 Blue Jay (Cyanocitta cristata) 15 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos) 1 Carolina Chickadee (Poecile carolinensis) 1 heard only? Tufted Titmouse (Baeolophus bicolor) 1 heard only White-breasted Nuthatch (Sitta carolinensis) 1 heard only Carolina Wren (Thryothorus ludovicianus) 1 Swainson's Thrush (Catharus ustulatus) 2 American Robin (Turdus migratorius) 27 Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) 1 Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) 1 European Starling (Sturnus vulgaris) 22 Cedar Waxwing (Bombycilla cedrorum) 2 Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) 2 Common Grackle (Quiscalus quiscula) 1 House Finch (Carpodacus mexicanus) 2 American Goldfinch (Spinus tristis) 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org) ================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