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.