[birdky] Fw: Location of snow buntings in Boone county?

Thanks Lee. I thought it might be in the area around Petersburg.

By combining the data from eBird with GoogleMap, it looks like there could be a 
flock of snow buntings that winters in the valley of the Greater Miami river in 
Southeast IN - Southwest Ohio. Since snow buntings like shoreline grain fields 
and the winter colors suggest they would be camouflaged for the edge of the 
snow line, I would guess this flock might regularly drop into KY near 
Petersburg when a line of heavy snow goes through Southern IN.

Doreen and I dropped off a friend recently at the airport in Florence and drove 
back to Lexington along the Ohio river on highways 8, 20 and 338. This is a 
beautiful stretch of farmland I would highly recommend for a winter day trip of 
birding. The mouth of the Greater Miami and the ponds near\across the Ohio 
river from Petersburg have a number of geese and ducks. If you toss in Meldahl 
or Markland dams for scoters as Brainard suggested, that makes for a very nice 
day of birding.
Good birding,
Joe
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Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:41:29 
To:joe.pulliam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [birdky] Location of snow buntings in Boone county?


The longspurs and snow buntings were most often seen along KY 20 1-2 miles 
southwest of Petersburg and also from Aurora Ferry Road which runs west to the 
Ohio River from KY 20. Both are likely long gone by now. 
  
Lee McNeely
 
 
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Doreen and I are thinking of making a trip tomorrow to try for irruptive 
species such as snow buntings, longspurs, scoters and hopefully crossbills. Any 
tips would be appreciated. Thanks, Joe Sent via BlackBerry by AT&T 
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