FreeLists / birdky / [birdky] RPT: Scissor-tailed Flycatcher in Livingston County

["bennetts" <bennetts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

A Scissor-tailed Flycatcher has been reported in Livingston County just 0.5 
miles south of the junction of KY 453 and Interstate 24.  Details of the report 
ace copied below:

AT 4:00 p.m. CDT, June 16, 2002, Steve White received a call from Jamie Quinn, 
a 
wildlife biologist with Meade-Westvaco, reporting a scissor-tailed 
flycatcher on highway 453 about 0.5 miles south of I-24 exit 31.  Steve 
proceeded to the area and verified the sighting and took several pictures 
(to be developed).  The bird was approximately 400 yards south of the Bison 
viewing area maintained by Vulcan Materials.  It  was first located on 
power lines near a power pole on the east side of 453 beside a large 
mountain of gravel.  The lines were normal lines below the set of high 
tension lines that cross the road at this location.  This is the first set 
of high tension lines that cross 453 south of the Bison viewing 
area.  There are other crossings farther south.  The bird was an adult male 
in good plumage.  It traded to the west side of 453 and fed just above the 
grass field which is a part of the Vulcan Material Natural area maintained 
on the west side of 453 along this stretch.  Note this would be on the 
extreme southeast corner of that natural area.  West of the road the large 
grassy field provides pretty typical scissor-tailed flycatcher habitat. 
East of 453 the habitat looks very unlikely. There are lots of power lines 
to check but numerous places to get off the road.


Mark & TG Bennett
Russellville, KY
Logan County
bennetts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


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