Slight by insignificant decrease in water at Shorebird Unit. Water is flowing from Pond Creek back into Muddy Slough! Pond Creek Marsh is now flooded again. A lot more water than yesterday morning. Highlights: Semipalmated Plover 1 Pectoral Sandpipers Wood Ducks flying all over Pond Creek Marsh and Muddy Slough Mourning Doves, 150, on powerline along 268. Stilt not seen. Lesser Yellowlegs numbers down: only 1 today Sloughs WMA - Pond Creek Marsh, Shorebird Unit, Hardy Slough, Henderson, US-KY Aug 4, 2012 6:10 AM - 8:40 AM Protocol: Traveling 1.5 mile(s) 36 species Wood Duck 30 Wild Turkey 1 Great Blue Heron 6 Semipalmated Plover 1 Killdeer 30 Spotted Sandpiper 5 Solitary Sandpiper 1 Lesser Yellowlegs 1 Least Sandpiper 7 Pectoral Sandpiper 15 Mourning Dove 150 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 2 American Crow X Northern Rough-winged Swallow X Bank Swallow X Barn Swallow 2 Tufted Titmouse X Carolina Wren 1 House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 Common Yellowthroat 2 Eastern Towhee 1 Field Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal X Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting X Dickcissel 2 Red-winged Blackbird X American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v3 (http://ebird.org) ================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