Hap Chambers, Scott Record, and I worked the Ballard County CBC yesterday, December 18th. We tallied a new high count for species with 95, besting the 93 in winter 2004-2005. The day was gray with a nearly constant northwest breeze keeping conditions relatively raw in comparison to the balmy weather of recent days. Complete results will appear in the February issue of The Kentucky Warbler. Highlights of the count are listed below: 21 species of waterfowl including smaller-than-normal numbers of geese: circa 725 Canadas; 4 Ross's; 250 Snows; 425 Greater White-fronteds (I may alter these numbers based on today's probable waterfowl flight); all of the expected dabblers; good variety of divers for Ballard WMA in winter, the neatest of which was an adult male Black Scoter! 3 "peenting" American Woodcocks next to West KY WMA in pre-dawn 3 Eurasian Collared-Doves in La Center MANY Red-headed Woodpeckers in the bottomland forests again this winter (we tallied 83 on the WMA with less than 10 stops) singles of both species of Cistothorus wrens (Sedge next to West KY WMA; Marsh at Ballard WMA) 4 Le Conte's Sparrows at Ballard WMA Lapland Longspurs ... small numbers scattered but at least 130 in the big fields east of Smokey Road Brewer's Blackbirds (2 & 11) in rural Ballard County; 2 east of Monkeys Eyebrow and 11 at the periodically inhabited Smokey Road spot bpb, Frankfort