[birdky] RPT: Rufous Hummingbird, Golden Eagle, Sandhill Cranes -- Jan 13th
- From: "Palmer-Ball, Brainard (EPPC OOS KNPC)" <Brainard.Palmer-Ball@xxxxxx>
- To: "BIRDKY" <birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Jan 2008 15:22:11 -0500
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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