Finally got some good t-storms with some great downpours yesterday evening. Shorebird Unit has some standing water. Maybe 1/20th flooded. But the water was enough to bring in some shorebirds!! Highlights: Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandipiper Lesser Yellowlegs Least Sandpipers Pectoral Sandpipers Stilt Sandpipers Sloughs WMA - Pond Creek Marsh, Shorebird Unit, Hardy Slough, Henderson, US-KY Aug 3, 2012 6:45 AM - 9:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 2.0 mile(s) 39 species (+1 other taxa) Wood Duck 4 Wild Turkey 11 Great Blue Heron 5 Killdeer 50 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Solitary Sandpiper 5 Lesser Yellowlegs 30 Least Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 3 Stilt Sandpiper 2 Mourning Dove X Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Eastern Wood-Pewee 4 Empidonax sp. X Great Crested Flycatcher 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 2 American Crow X Northern Rough-winged Swallow X Purple Martin 2 Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow X Carolina Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X Carolina Wren X Blue-gray Gnatcatcher X Eastern Bluebird 5 American Robin 1 Gray Catbird 1 European Starling X Common Yellowthroat 3 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 3 Northern Cardinal X Indigo Bunting X Dickcissel 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) Charlie Henderson Co. ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== When posting on BIRDKY, please close posts with your first and last name and your address (city or county). * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To post on BIRDKY, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS website at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/default.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the KOS Photo Page to view photos of birds recently sighted in Kentucky: http://www.flickr.com/groups/kentucky_ornithological_society/pool * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison. E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx