[birdky] Mitchell Lake

  • From: Melissa Easley <melissaeasley1@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2012 22:21:39 -0500

The NE portion of the lake can best be described as "moist".  The SE
section still has water, but it too is shrinking, and the shores are
encrusted with dead fish and cracked mud. I walked along the SE shore as
far back as possible, but I could not relocate the tricolored heron.

Great Blue Heron 4
Great Egret 1
Snowy Egret 13
Canada Goose 14
Mississippi Kite 6
Bald Eagle 2 adult, 2 juv
American Kestrel 1
Killdeer 1
Spotted Sandpiper 4
Eastern Wood Peewee 2
White-eyed Vireo 2
Fish Crows(heard)
Northern Rough-winged Swallows 50
Barn Swallow 1
Sedge Wren 2  (very vocal)
Indigo Bunting 2
Blue Gray Gnatcatchers 2

Melissa Easley
Murray, Ky.


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