[birdky] Sloughs

  • From: Charles Crawford <cr4d@xxxxxxx>
  • To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2014 14:04:20 -0500

Wood Tract south is quickly drying up/draining and with that the shorebirds are 
going.
All my yellowlegs were in the impoundments near Gentle Pond.
Shorebird Unit still has too much water for shorebirds, but is good for ducks.

KY Sloughs WMA - Sauerheber Unit, Henderson, US-KY
Mar 30, 2014 7:10 AM - 11:45 AM
Protocol: Traveling
3.0 mile(s)
Comments:     Pond Creek Marsh, Gentle Pond, Shorebird Unit, Hardy Slough, Wood 
Tract
53 species

Greater White-fronted Goose  6
Canada Goose  16
Wood Duck  6
Gadwall  30
American Black Duck  8
Mallard  20
Blue-winged Teal  30
Northern Shoveler  18
Green-winged Teal  40
Ring-necked Duck  8
Hooded Merganser  4
Wild Turkey  3     Toms together
Pied-billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)  1
Turkey Vulture  3
Northern Harrier  2
Bald Eagle  5     2 ad. @ Hardy Slough nest, 1 ad. @ Gentle Pond nest, 1 ad. @ 
Anderson Pond nest, 1 imm. over Pond Creek Marsh
Red-shouldered Hawk  1
Red-tailed Hawk  3
American Coot  50
Killdeer  X
Greater Yellowlegs  20
Lesser Yellowlegs  12
Wilson's Snipe  1
Mourning Dove  4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  5
Downy Woodpecker  3
Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted)  4
Pileated Woodpecker  6
Eastern Phoebe  1
Blue Jay  2
American Crow  X
Horned Lark  4
Tree Swallow  2
Carolina Chickadee  1
Tufted Titmouse  18
White-breasted Nuthatch  2
Carolina Wren  2
Golden-crowned Kinglet  1
Brown Thrasher  2
European Starling  X
Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle)  2
Eastern Towhee  3
Field Sparrow  5
Fox Sparrow (Red)  2
Song Sparrow  X
Swamp Sparrow  X
White-throated Sparrow  X
Northern Cardinal  X
Red-winged Blackbird  X
Rusty Blackbird  7
Common Grackle  X
Brown-headed Cowbird  X

View this checklist online at 
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S17666841

This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org)

Charlie
Henderson Co.



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