Birding highlights from the weekend: 15 January w/ Nephew Carter Hooks Mute Swan 6 Petros Pond Gr. White-fronted Goose 3 Walton's Pond Cackling Goose 5 Griffin Park Redhead 20 Petros Pond Eurasian Collared-Dove Richpond 16 January Mute Swan 6 at Petros Pond and 10 on a transient pond along Homer Murray Rd. near Woodburn. Gr. White-fronted Goose 3 Petros Cackling Goose 1 Griffin Park Lesser Scaup Petros Sandhill Crane appr. 70 landed in a field of corn stubble along 31-w south near Chaney Lake. Pine Siskin Shaker Mill Fox Sparrow Shaker Mill Also, this morning, January 16, I looked out the window to see a Loggerhead Shrike perched on my deck rail! Joanie said she saw it on the front porch rail yesterday. It apparently has been attracted by the small birds feeding in the yard. Yesterday while Carter and I were standing next to a barn watching the waterfowl at Walton's Pond, I heard the alarm note of a starling. That call usually means an accipiter is near and this was no exception. I looked up from the scope to see a Cooper's Hawk in hot pursuit of a starling coming across a field, and which made for the nearest cover available, the open door of the barn next to which we were standing. The hawk, which was only about a foot behind it, never missed a wingbeat and disappeared into the barn right behind the starling. Eleven year-old Carter yelled, THAT WAS COOL!!! And he was right! We never saw the birds again, so I don't know if the hawk caught it or they flew out the other side of the barn. That's the kind of exciting birding an eleven year old will remember. David L. Roemer Bowling Green, Ky. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? All your favorites on one personal page ? Try My Yahoo! http://my.yahoo.com ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx