- RBA * Kentucky * Statewide * May 18, 2004 * KYKY04.04.22 - Birds Mentioned: Yellow-crowned Night-Heron Black Scoter Semipalmated Plover Semipalmated Sandpiper White-rumped Sandpiper Dunlin Stilt Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Long-billed Dowitcher Olive-sided Flycatcher Veery Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Connecticut Warbler Mourning Warbler Rose-breasted Grosbeak - Transcript Hotline: Kentucky Sponsor: The Kentucky Ornithological Society, http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm Date: May 18, 2004 Number: (502) 326-0878 To Report: (502) 326-0878 or smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Coverage: Kentucky and Southern Indiana Compiled: 12:00 PM, EDT, May 18, 2004 Transcriber/Compiler: Scott Marsh E-mail: smarsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx This is the Kentucky Bird Line, sponsored by the Kentucky Ornithological Society. This update is current as of May 18, 2004 at 12:00 PM EDT. The highlights of this update are: Birds of interest this week include 133 DUNLIN counted on McElroy Lake on the 16th. Other shore birds from the area included SEMIPALMATED PLOVER, SEMIPALMATED SANDPIPER (whose numbers on gaining on LEAST SANDPIPERS), WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER, STILT SANDPIPER, and both SHORT-BILLED and LONG-BILLED DOWITCHERS. Song bird migrants included another mention of a VEERY from the Land Between the Lakes, along with MAGNOLIA , BLACKPOLL, BAY-BREASTED, and MOURNING WARBLERS. From Pine Mt. 27 CERULEAN, and 39 CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLERS were counted in addition to 1 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK. CONNECTICUT WARBLERS were mentioned from east Jefferson County, Mammoth Cave, Land Between the Lakes, and the Bowling Green area. An OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER was found in southern Pulaski County on the 12th. And as a late note, 3 BLACK SCOTERS were seen on Herrington Lake on the 6th. This set a new late date for spring, and was a rare sighting of an adult male BLACK SCOTER. Thanks for calling the Kentucky Bird Line. You may leave a report after the tone. Please include your name, the date, the location, and the time of your observation when filing a report. If your report contains rare or out of season species, please send appropriate documentation to the KBRC Lee McNeely, Secretary Post Office Box 463 Burlington, KY 41005 More information about the KBRC and KOS may be found at the KOS web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm. - End Transcript ================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