Great morning birding at the Falls/Ashland Park and the Big Four Bridge area: The lighting conditions were great in the morning. Highlights: were the large numbers of horned grebes, d-c-cormorants, lesser scaup. The lesser scaup were identified mostly by the white restricted to secondaries while flying. I'm sure there were some Greater Scaup in these large rafts? Had nice views of three 1st winter adult Franklin's Gulls on the outer fossil beds (viewed from the Interpretive Center). Judy Galitzine and Barbara Worner (spelling) had views of the Franklin's Gulls at the Interpretive Center. Eddie Huber arrived at Ashland Park in the early afternoon. Falls of the Ohio (KY), Jefferson, US-KY Nov 4, 2011 (10:30 AM - 2:30 PM) Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: Lots of waterfowl observed at the Falls (between Ashland Park and the Interpretive Center) 24 species (+1 other taxa) Wood Duck 3 Gadwall 35 American Wigeon 7 Mallard 5 Northern Shoveler 17 Redhead 1 Ring-necked Duck 12 Lesser Scaup 550 (large rafts above railroad bridge (upper gates), 35 at Big Four Bridge) Greater/Lesser Scaup X (so many scaup on the river, from what I could observe they were lesser scaup) Bufflehead 1 Hooded Merganser 5 Ruddy Duck 7 Pied-billed Grebe 17 Horned Grebe 215 (Ashland Park had 140 grebes, Big Four Bridge had 75 grebes) Double-crested Cormorant (375 at the Falls, 250 at Big Four Bridge) Surf Scoter 1 (surf scoter was near the big four bridge with a raft of scaup) Great Blue Heron 11 Great Egret 3 (flying around the Ashland Park area) Bald Eagle 1 (immature on fossil beds) Red-tailed Hawk 1 American Coot 300 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Franklin's Gull 3 (1st winter gulls on outer fossil beds) Ring-billed Gull 20 Herring Gull 2 Del Striegel Georgetown, IN (Floyd County) This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) ================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