Public Access Birding Sites in Monroe County, Kentucky
If you have information about other public access birding sites in this county, please send details to me at this e-mail address:
Monroe County covers an area of 860 km2 (332.1 mi2). A map of the county—with the some sites noted below coded on it—is available via the following link:
Tompkinsville City Park (TCP) is one of the better birding sites in Monroe Co., KY. To reach this park, take Rt. 163 south from the center of Tompkinsville; in a bit less than a half a mile, go right on Mill Creek Rd., and in 1.8 miles you will come to the park entrance on the right. Enter the park and look for the numerous Red-headed Woodpeckers in the oak woodlands scattered along the park roads. Mill Creek Lake, an impoundment of Mill Creek, is a fairly large body of water that borders the park on the west. Access points to view the lake can be found on two gravel roads leading west from the main park road; one of these goes behind the ball park. The lake is large enough to draw in Common Loons and Bonaparte's Gulls.
The Old Mulkey Meetinghouse State Historic Site (OMM) is an attractive site to bird when it is not busy with picnickers and other users of this small area of mature woodlands. To get to this site from Tompkinsville, take Rt. 1446 (aka Old Mulkey Park Rd. outside town and Magnolia Avenue in town) about 3.2 km (2 mi) southwest and the site will be located on the right. This site is open daily 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM and is often busy after 10:00 AM on week-ends, so arrive at the opening time, and you will have plenty of time to work the woodlands of the park before much of a gathering develops. Scarlet Tanager and Kentucky Warbler breed at this site.
Please send details about any birds you record in these areas—or any public access site in Monroe Co.—to me at the e-mail address noted above. sjs.
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