The transient lakes at Woodburn are retaining water, but hunters are keeping the birds away for the most part. A few ducks have been present at McElroy, but none have been observed recently at Chaney. Highlights from the past few days are as follows: 12-25 McElroy Lake Mallard 300 Black 20 N Shoveler 3 Savannah Sparrow 24 Rusty Blackbird Yard/Warren Fox Sparrow 5 Savannah Sparrow 12-28 McElroy Mute Swan 6 Blue-winged Teal female ditch across road from lake N Shoveler 8 ditch across road Horned Lark 300+ Lapland Longspur 10-15 Griffin Park/Warren Canada Goose 1300 Ring-necked Duck 9 12-29 Gr. White-fronted Goose 2 fly-over Logan Co as reported by Mark Bennett on the Olmstead CBC. Red-tailed Hawk calurus adult light-morph Logan Olmstead CBC calurus juv dark intermediate-morph Logan CBC Mute Swans present at McElroy pm 12-31 Steve Stedman and I participated in the Glasgow CBC with the following highlights observed at Barren Reservoir. Common Loon 2 Common Merganser 7 Walnut Creek area Ring-billed Gull 4600+ in roost near Mason's Island Herring Gull 9 Bonaparte's Gull 200 Am Pipit 50 Am Tree Sparrow 2 Purple Finch 3 David L. Roemer Bowling Green, Ky. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - You care about security. So do we. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail ================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