9/16/08 KY Lake areas of Henry Co (Eagle Creek, Paris Landing, Britton Ford, Big Sandy flats) Not much going on yesterday afternoon at KY Lake, though 13 species of shorebirds wasn't bad. The Godwits appear to continued on their journey to southern South America. Highlight by location: Eagle Creek (Bull Durham Rd) Spotted Sandpiper 2 Pectoral Sandpiper 2 Baird's Sandpiper 2 (juv) Semipalmated Sandpiper 8 Western Sandpiper 8 Least Sandpiper 40 Paris Landing (principally on the island) Ring-billed Gull 200+ Herring Gull 1 Laughing Gull 2 (a juv. and a 2nd-winter, which makes at least 4 Laughers in the area) Bonaparte's Gull (juv. flying around the area) Caspian Tern 100+ Pintail (over 100 mixed in with Shovelers, Mallards, Blue, and Green-winged Teal around the island) Britton Ford (flats closest to Swayne Rd) American Golden-Plover 1 (juv) Semipalmated Plover (1 juv) Killdeer 50+ Lesser Yellowlegs 28 Upland Sandpiper (1 heard only) Semipalmated Sandpiper 7 Least Sandpiper 10 Pectoral Sandpiper 39 Stilt Sandpiper 1 (juv) Buff-breasted Sandpiper 2 (juv) Big Sandy flats (Manor Rd) Nothing but Killdeer and a few distant peeps I've added a couple of so-so photos of a Buffy and the Golden to my Fall 2008 gallery, if interested the 1st is here: http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/image/103263176 Good Birding!! Mike Todd McKenzie, TN birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.pbase.com/mctodd =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________