Spent 6 hours today thrashing around in thickets at 4 different parks. Found 2 small, nondescript, brown gilled mushrooms. No morels. Not sure if I am looking in the wrong spots or if they are not up yet. Being new to Kentucky, things are very different here. In PA we looked for the tulip poplars and ash tree covered slopes, went for the rocky areas that held moisture, and that about covered it. Rarely found them near oaks.
Here I am looking in the bottoms, near creeks, away from the really wet areas. Birches, some poplar, sweetgum. And not finding anything. We usually found the blacks on the hills, but here if I go up the hillsides it gets to be all oaks and foot deep leaves in no time.
I did go out around New Concord today but no luck. If and when I find anything, I will post. This is my first spring here and I really thought things would be earlier. I started looking around March 15th!