Highlights: 2 Great Egrets 3 Tenn. Warblers 2 Marsh Wrens 1 Sedge Wren 2 Winter Wrens Almost had a 7 Woodpecker day, just missed by a Red-headed Woodpecker. I should have been able to get it but dipped. Water is being pumped into Wood Tract south and Muddy Slough. Shorebird Unit has standing water. But shorebirds are absent and ducks are just fly-bys. KY Sloughs WMA - Gentle P., Pond Creek Marsh, Hardy Slough, SBU, Henderson, US-KY Oct 16, 2013 7:10 AM - 12:20 PM Protocol: Traveling 2.5 mile(s) 50 species Canada Goose 13 passing over Shorebird Unit Wood Duck 7 Mallard 1 Green-winged Teal 13 passing over Pond Creek Marsh Pied-billed Grebe 7 4 at Pond Creek Marsh, 3 at Hardy Slough Great Blue Heron 3 Great Egret 2 at Pond Creek Marsh Turkey Vulture 4 Bald Eagle 3 1 adults as a pair, 1 imm. Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 2 Sora 1 American Coot 10 3 at Pond Creek Marsh, 7 at Hardy Slough Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker X Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) X Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay X American Crow X Northern Rough-winged Swallow 4 Tree Swallow 18 Carolina Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch X Winter Wren 2 Sedge Wren 1 Marsh Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 2 American Robin X Tennessee Warbler 3 Common Yellowthroat 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) X Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Song Sparrow X Swamp Sparrow 40 White-throated Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 1 Northern Cardinal X Indigo Bunting 1 Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X American Goldfinch X View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S15421535 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