[birdky] Horseshoe Road slough...
- From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2009 17:10:59 -0500
8/3/09
7AM to 9AM Clear, 63º rising to 79º
A lot of rain Saturday night upped water levels in the sloughs.
268 (River) slough east end now has water. West end is flooded into
the weeds.
Lots of Killdeer, few Great Blues, and Great Egrets. 3 Least Sandpipers.
Horseshoe Road slough
Water level up into weeds. Only good habitat is at extreme NE and NW
ends.
Wood Ducks 10
Mallards 25
Great Blue Herons 15
Great Egret 70
Semipalmated Plovers 10
Killdeer 75
Spotted Sandpiper 10
Solitary Sandpiper 3
Great Yellowlegs 1 (heard never seen)
Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
Least Sandpipers 20
Short-billed Dowitcher 1
Mourning Doves 5
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
American Crows 15
Horned Larks 25
Tree Swallows 40
Northern Rough-winged Swallows 100
Bank Swallows 50
Barn Swallows 10
European Starlings 40
Song Sparrow 10
Indigo Bunting 20
Dickcissel 10
Red-winged Blackbird 20
American Goldfinch 1
Elsewhere thousands of swallows on power lines along 268 & 136
Red-tailed Hawks 3. 1 has been a regular along 268 slough.
E. Kingbirds
Brown Thrasher
E. Bluebird
E. Meadowlark
Charlie
Henderson Co.
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