* Kentucky
* Statewide
* March 29, 1999
* KYKY9903.29
- Birds mentioned
Great Egrets
ROSS' GOOSE
Rough-legged Hawk
American Golden-Plover
Lesser Yellowlegs
Greater Yellowlegs
Least Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpipers
Dunlin
Short-eared Owls
Barn Swallows
Purple Martins
Red-breasted Nuthatches
Brown Thrashers
American Pipits
Chipping Sparrows
Vesper Sparrows
- Transcript
Hotline: Kentucky BirdLine
Number: (502) 894-9538
Number to report: (502) 894-9538
Compiler: Brainard Palmer-Ball, Jr.
Coverage: Statewide & S. Indiana
Transcriber: P. Roger Sweets <prswee01@homer.louisville.edu>
This is a transcript of the Monday, March 29th update to the
Kentucky BirdLine sponsored by the Kentucky Ornithological Society. Visit
the KOS Web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm
Highlights of this update are returning spring migrants.
Notable rarities have been lacking over the past few weeks, but early
spring migrants and returning summer residents are filtering in. This
past weekend a number of early species were reported including VESPER
SPARROWS and AMERICAN PIPITS at several locations and the season's first
PURPLE MARTINS and BARN SWALLOWS. Other early species like BROWN
THRASHERS and CHIPPING SPARROWS are beginning to increase.
The KOS field trip to the Woodburn transient lakes on March 27th yielded
observations of seven species of shorebirds including 26 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS, both LESSER and GREATER YELLOWLEGS, about 150 PECTORAL
SANDPIPERS, 1 single LEAST SANDPIPER and a single DUNLIN. About a dozen
waterfowl species were also present, most at Chaney Lake.
The adult ROSS' GOOSE apparently continues at Basil Griffin Park on the
south side of Bowling Green, Warren Co. As of last week, the bird was
still being seen on the park's main lake which is on KY 884, about a mile
or so south of US 231 just off I-65.
Recent reports from one of our favorite birding areas in spring, western
Fulton County along the Mississippi River, have included observations of
AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER, many YELLOWLEGS and PECTORAL SANDPIPERS, and
returning GREAT EGRETS.
Two RED-BREASTED NUTHATCHES were seen at Bernheim Forest, Bullitt Co. on
March 28th. A single ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK was reported from the Peabody WMA
over the weekend.
SHORT-EARED OWLS continue along US 62 in Nelson County, just east of the
small community of Boston. These birds may remain for another two weeks
or so. If you are interested in trying to see them, call Richard Healy,
502/351-0285 for directions.
Thanks for reading the cyberspace edition of the Kentucky
BirdLine. Please call the Kentucky BirdLine with your reports and don't
forget to mention the date and time of your sightings. You can send
Internet reports directly to
sweets@indiana.edu
Good birding!
- End transcript