Highlights from a birding/insect photography trip to western Kentucky are listed below. 9-1-10 REELFOOT LONGPOINT UNIT/FULTON Water in a couple of fields with a few common shorebirds including both yellowlegs, Least, Semipalmated and Pectoral Sandpipers. 9-2 OBION WMA/UPPER HICKMAN BOTTOMS/FULTON Sedge Wren singing Alder Flycatcher calling Hap and Melis MISSISSIPPI RIVER/CARLISLE CO Northern Shoveler (3) Western Willet (6) Dowitcher species (3 distant flying down the river) Caspian Tern (3) Forster's Tern (3) Least Tern (several scattered including juvs) Black Tern (flock of 75+ including juvs and adults in all stages of molt hawking insects over the river) Swallows (all species feeding low over the river given the heavy overcast and drizzle as far as the eye could see) MITCHELL LAKE/BALLARD WMA Semipalmated Plover Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Spotted Sandpiper Semipalmated Sandpiper Least Sandpiper Western Sandpiper Baird's Sandpiper (7) Pectoral Sandpiper Buff-breasted Sandpiper Least Tern Most of the shorebirds were gorgeous juvs. Fish Crows and Mississippi Kites present in good numbers along the river and in the bottoms. 9-3 LAKE BARKLEY/LYON American White Pelicans Franklin's Gull (adult) Common Tern (ad) Caspian and Forster's Terns David Roemer Bowling Green ================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