Monday birding highlights, a nice morning to be a retired person! Jonathan Creek Ruddy Duck - 75 Dowitcher - 1 Wilson's Snipe - 1 Dunlin - 6 Least Sandpiper - 48 American Pipit - 4 Forster's Tern - 60 Barkley Lake Common Loon - 3 Horned Grebe American White Pelican - 85+ Ruddy Duck Lesser Scaup Ring-necked Duck Gadwall Bufflehead LeConte's Sparrow (thanks Mary & Ben for telling us where to look) Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Field Sparrow White Throated Sparrow KY Dam Bald Eagle Bonaparte's Gull Herring Gull Clark's River NWR Bonaparte's Gull - 2 King Fisher Tree Sparrow Field Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Song Sparrow The native grass fields at the Environmental Education and Recreation Area are full of sparrows now. Thanks to the "Friends Group" and the refuge staff for developing this area. Hap & Melissa Murray, KY