[birdky] RPT: Rufous Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Sandhill Cranes -- Jan 13th

Mark Monroe and I banded an imm. female RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRD between Flaherty and 
Big Spring, in western Hardin County, this morning. The bird has been coming to 
the feeder of Gail and Matthew Whelan since at least early November.
 
On the way back, we circled down through the fields west of Cecelia and saw 
scattered flocks of SANDHILL CRANES with probably a few more than 200 total 
seen in groups of 2-90. One of the adult cranes at the Fire Station along KY 86 
was color banded with white and red bands on one leg and a yellow band on the 
other with 399 imprinted on it. Anyone know where these color-banded birds 
originated? Other birds of note in the vicinity included a female BREWER'S 
BLACKBIRD and a few WILSON'S SNIPE.
 
On the way back up I-65 from Elizabethtown, Mr. Eagle Eye found a sub-adult 
GOLDEN EAGLE east of the interstate just south of Lebanon Junction, and an 
adult BALD EAGLE just west of the interstate at the Salt River bridge at 
Shepherdsville (his second of the day, having spotted another adult Bald Eagle 
along the Ohio River just north of West Point along US 31W on the way down).
 
Also, this morning I had at least two Pine Siskins in my mother's yard in 
Louisville.
 
bpb, Frankfort

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