[birdky] RPT: West KY various points May 4-5, 16 spp shorebirds
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- Date: Sat, 12 May 2012 21:33:15 -0400 (EDT)
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Sorry for the tardy post ...
Eddie Huber, Andy Newman, and myself birded various points in west KY la= st
Fri-Sat with the following highlights:
Fri., May 4
Henders= on Co.: shorebird habitat drying up quickly; J Dance Road, Hardy
Slough; &a= mp; Shorebird Unit all held only small numbers of common
species.Horseshoe= Road Sloughs had the most shorebirds we saw including a
Black-bellied Plov= er and 5 Short-billed Dowitchers, 170+ Semi Plovers
&about 40 Dunlin.
Union Co.: Highland Creek Unit Sloughs WMA -- 3 Mississippi Kites; C= amp
#11had smattering of waterbirds including a pair of Gadwall, a Common =
Gallinule and a Black Tern.
Northern ends of Lake Barkley and Ky Lak= e: decent numbers of Forster's
Terns; few gulls; Ruddy Turnstone on Lake Ba= rkley bar at the mouth of Lick
Creek near Mineral Mound State Park. Kuttawa= vicinity: 1 Amer White
Pelican;nesting island has been completely taken o= ver by Double-crested
Cormorants and Great Egrets. Cypress Creek Swamp sout= hwest of Ky Dam
Village: at least 7 Yellow-crowned Night-Herons moving abou= t at dusk.
Sat., May 5
Fulton Co.: Lower Hickman Bottoms -- Shorebird habitat drying u= p very
quickly; only birds of interest seen at south end Lake No. 9 and inc= luded
4Black-bellied Plovers, 2 American Golden-Plovers; 3 Dunlin. Private= land
adjacent to Obion WMA in Upper Hickman Bottoms: 4 Snowy Egrets and 3 =
American Golden-Plovers.
North ends of Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake: most of the same birds as =
previous day including Ruddy Turnstone, but also had flocks of 25 and 15 Co=
mmon Terns on Kentucky above dam and Barkley out from Green Turtle Bay, res=
pectively.
Paradise Power Plant Ash Pond, Muhlenberg Co.: smattering of shorebirds =
including 2 White-rumped; there were also at least 55 Purple Martins (most =
or all females) that we presumed were late migrants still on their way to C=
anadian breeding grounds??
bpb, ebh, akn
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