[birdky] RPT: Cecilia, Hardin County, cranes

From: brainard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: BIRDKY <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2012 20:06:30 -0500 (EST)
Erin Harper with the Ky. Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Resources reported 6900 
Sandhill Cranes at Cecilia yesterday evening, January 31st. 

For those who are not familiar with this area, it is southwest of Elizabethtown 
in western Hardin County. If you have a KY Gazetteer, the area is on page 48, 
block E-3. From Elizabethtown, take US 62 west a few miles to KY 86. Take a 
right, go through Cecilia, and proceed a couple of miles to a Fire Station on 
the right hand side of the road. BEWARE of very fast traffic on KY 86; it is a 
pretty unsafe road to be slowing down and especially stopping on; side roads 
are less heavily travelled and safter. There is a large gravel parking area at 
the fire station to get out and scan, but most of the fields right at the fire 
station were in soybeans last year, so they are not as attractive to the cranes 
as the corn stubble and winter wheat fields in other areas. Birds are typically 
in view along either side of KY 86 between Bethlehem Academy Road (KY 253) (to 
north) and Franklin Crossroads (at flashing yellow light for KY 1375). Taking 
loops both north and south of KY 86 typically yields views of additional 
flocks. To the north, try KY 1375 north to KY 1357, Tabb Road, and Bethlehem 
Academy Road (KY 253). To the south, try Black Branch Road, Hansbrough Road, 
and KY 1375 past Dranes Lakes to loop back to south end of Black Branch Road 
(KY 1375 is mislabelled on the gazetteer). If many birds are in the area, 
feeding flocks may move out even farther from the main roost ponds along KY 86.

NOTE! ... Tennessee's Hiwassee Refuge Hooded Crane has not been seen in a 
couple of days (I think). If you have not seen photos of this bird, Google it 
so you know what it (and Common Crane ... one in Nebraska recently) looks like. 
Get ahold of someone immediately if you see either of these species with the 
Sandhills here or elsewhere in Kentucky!!

A reminder that the International Crane Foundation respectfully requests that 
locations of Whooping Cranes not be reported widely on public listservs to 
protect them from undue disturbance.

BPB, Louisville
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[birdky] RPT: Cecilia, Hardin County, cranes

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