[birdky] RPT: West KY 20-21 March

From: brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: "birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2009 09:55:32 -0400 (GMT-04:00)
March 20th, Western Fulton County (mostly Lower Hickman Bottmos). Highlights: 
lots of common waterfowl and shorebirds; best shorebirds were 2 early 
Black-necked Stilts at Long Point; ca. 100 American Golden-Plovers; 600 
Bonaparte's Gulls loafing at Open Pond when not feeding in surrounding fields; 
at least 2 Le Conte's Sparrows at Long Point; 15 Brewer's Blackbirds; at least 
20 Lapland Longspurs.

March 21st, Ky-Barkley Lakes. Highlights ... hard to put a scope up and not see 
Lesser Scaup, Am Coots and D-cr Cormorants in view anywhere on either lake; 
Glaucous Gull -- first-year on Ky Lake above the dam and another or same down 
on the lake N of Birmingham Pt.; Great Black-backed Gull -- first-year on Ky 
Lake above the dam (seen twice during day); Thayer's x Iceland Gull -- 
first-year bird ... probably the same one there in late January, very pale now 
from fading and wear; los of common waterbirds to scan on both lakes, but only 
one rarity ... Red-throated Loon -- a probable adult N of Birmingham Point on 
Ky Lake; Common Loon -- at least 110 total counted at various points on Ky 
Lake; a few Forster's Terns on Lake Barkley near Eureka and Kuttawa. Early 
arrivals included a Louisiana Waterthrush singing at the Ky Sheriff's Ranch 
near Ky Dam and 3 Great Egrets and several Black-crowned Night-Herons at 
Kuttawa island. At Eureka Campground, I was standing among the trees on the 
lake shore and about 15 Red-breasted Mergs landed up close and didn't see me; 
several of the males in the group began doing their bowing courtship displays 
making their very eery-sounding, wirey calls.

BPB, Frankfort
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