[birdky] Swans -- tundra and mute
- From: "Ben Yandell" <by@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "Birdky" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2005 19:48:33 -0500
Matt Stickel called this afternoon to say he had two TUNDRA SWANS and
CACKLING GOOSE (more than one?) at Reformatory Lake in LaGrange, but he
didn't have a chance to tell his news before I told him about the two TUNDRA
SWANS that flew southeast over Mary and me about 10 this morning at Caperton
Swamp in Louisville. I guess it's theoretically possible that Matt and we
saw the same two swans. (Reformatory Lake is 15 or so miles northeast of
Caperton.) We ruled out trumpeter swan due to the spot in front of the eye
that our birds had.
Mary and I also had 17 snow geese in an earlier flyover this morning, as
well as a lone rusty blackbird. Above the Falls of the Ohio were 4-6
canvasbacks, 15 or more hooded mergansers, and about that many lesser scaup.
No scoters seen. 100-200 ring-billed gulls below the Falls.
Mary and I then went to Bernheim Forest in an unsuccessful search for golden
eagles, but just after 5 at Lake Nevin we found 10 MUTE SWANS. I assume
these are not domestic birds.
Ben Yandell
Louisville
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