[birdky] RPT: Freeman Lake, Cecilia area
- From: "Andrew Melnykovych" <estiles74@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 16:05:45 -0500
Spent about 5 hours in E'town/Cecilia today, mostly to look for sandhills,
which were plentiful, but found some other nice birds
Freeman Lake:
Horned grebe - 2
Pied-billed grebe - 5
Great blue heron - x
Canada goose - x
Mallard - x
Ring-necked duck - ~6
Lesser scaup - 2
Hooded merganser - 4
Ring-billed gull - 3
Coot - many, mostly on upper end
Killdeer - 2
Non-water birds included below w/Cecilia report
Started seeing sandhills in Cecilia itself. Probably saw several thousand in
all, mostly along 82 west of Cecilia and then south along 1375 and
Stephensburg Road. Smaller number on Black Branch Road SW of Cecilia and 253
north
Other birds along route:
Pied-billed grebe
Great blue heron
Canada goose
Cackling goose - about 6 or 8 on farm pond off 1375
Mallard - x
Green-winged teal - pair in Stephensburg
Hooded merganser - pair on farm pond off Black Branch Rd.
Coot
Killdeer
Turkey vulture
Black vulture
Red-tailed hawk - many
Red-shouldered hawk - off I-65 at Brooks in Bullitt County
Kestrel - at least 20
Mourning dove
Belted kingfisher
Common flicker
Pileated woodpecker - flying across I-65 at Lebanon Junction
Red-bellied woodpecker
Downy woodpecker
Eastern phoebe
Blue jay
Common crow
Carolina chickadee
Tufted titmouse
Carolina wren
Mockingbird
Robin
Eastern bluebird
Yellow-rumped warbler - many in Stephensburg
Eastern meadowlark
Red-winged blackbird - lots of singing
Common grackle
American goldfinch
Cardinal
Song sparrow
Surprisingly sparse on sparrows; no juncos or towhees, either
On the other, had all three usual regretables:
Rock pigeon
European starling
House sparrow
44 species total
Andrew Melnykovych/Bill Pike
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