What a month! 25 species of shorebirds, including buff-breasted sandpiper, 34 spp. of warblers, plus white-winged dove , white-winged scoter, black-bellied whistling-ducks, white-faced ibis, Bewick's wren. A great time to be outdoors. Here's my list so far (205 species). Can anyone add a horned grebe, American bittern, either night-heron, Mississippi kite, sharp-shinned hawk, merlin, gulls, ducks, raven, r-b nuthatch, Swainson's or Connecticut warbler, swamp sparrow, or anything else I've left out? Steve Kistler Hart Co common loon pied-billed grebe white pelican d.c. cormorant least bittern great blue heron great egret snowy egret little blue heron cattle egret green heron white-faced ibis turkey vulture black vulture Canada goose wood duck black-bellied whistling-ducks mallard blue-winged teal n. shoveler ring-necked duck les. scaup white-w. scoter bufflehead hooded merganser red-breasted merganser ruddy duck osprey bald eagle cooper's hawk red-shouldered hawk broad-winged hawk red-tailed hawk kestrel peregrine turkey bobwhite coot black-bellied plover semipalmated plover killdeer black-necked stilt greater yellowlegs lesser yellowlegs solitary sandpiper willet spotted sandpiper ruddy turnstone upland sandpiper sanderling semipalmated sandpiper western sandpiper least sandpiper white-rumped sandpiper pectoral sandpiper dunlin stilt sandpiper buff-breasted sandpiper short-billed dowitcher long-billed dowitcher Wilson's snipe woodcock Wilson's phalarope ring-billed gull Caspian tern Forster's tern least tern black tern rock pigeon Eurasian collared-dove white-winged dove mourning dove black-billed cuckoo yellow-billed cuckoo barn owl screech owl great horned owl barred owl c. nighthawk chuck-will's-widow whip-poor-will chimney swift r-thr, hummingbird kingfisher red-headed woodpecker red-bellied woodpecker y-b sapsucker downy hairy flicker pileated woodpecker olive-sided flycatcher e. pewee yellow-bellied flycatcher Acadian flycatcher alder flycatcher willow flycatcher least flycatcher eastern phoebe great crested flycatcher eastern kingbird loggerhead shrike white-eyed vireo bell's vireo yellow-throated vireo blue-headed vireo warbling vireo Philadelphia vireo red-eyed vireo blue jay crow fish crow horned lark purple martin tree swallow n. rough-winged swallow bank swallow barn swallow cliff swallow Carolina chickadee titmouse white-breasted nuthatch Carolina wren Bewick's wren house wren ruby-crowned kinglet blue-gray gnatcatcher bluebird veery grey-cheeked thrush Swainson's thrush hermit thrush wood thrush robin catbird mockingbird thrasher starling American pipit waxwing blue-winged warbler golden-winged warbler Tennessee warbler Nashville warbler n. parula yellow warbler chestnut-sided warbler magnolia warbler Cape May warbler black-throated blue warbler yellow-rumped warbler black-thr green warbler blackburnian warbler yellow-throated warbler pine warbler prairie warbler palm warbler bay-breasted warbler blackpoll warbler cerulean warbler black-and-white warbler A. redstart prothonotary warbler worm-eating warbler ovenbird northern waterthrush Louisiana waterthrush Kentucky warbler mourning warbler common yellowthroat hooded warbler Wilson's warbler Canada warbler yellow-breasted chat summer tanager scarlet tanager eastern towhee chipping sparrow field sparrow lark sparrow savannah sparrow grasshopper sparrow Henslow's sparrow song sparrow Lincoln's sparrow white-throated sparrow white-crowned sparrow cardinal rose-breasted grosbeak blue grosbeak indigo bunting dickcissel bobolink red-winged blackbird e. meadowlark rusty blackbird grackle cowbird orchard oriole Baltimore oriole purple finch house finch pine siskin goldfinch house sparrow ================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