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[Dnldhlt@xxxxxxx]

     Like Bryan Stevens, I had Red-winged Blackbirds in my yard Sunday 
heralding spring.  I also had mating Mourning Doves.
     At Steele Creek Park, it seemed to be two-for-one day, Sunday.  We had 
two Great Blue Herons, and two Pied-billed Grebes ( including one that spent 
a lot of time on a log, leaving it briefly to swim with the other grebe, then 
returning to the same log).  We also had two Ring-billed Gulls that 
apparently got tired of following people in the Mall parking lot to their 
cars to look for trash after the car leaves.  They wheeled around over the 
lake several times in the afternoon sun.  The lake has been drawn down 
several feet to allow work on the shoreline stabilization project for the 
next few days.  This will be a recurring event at this time of year for the 
next few years.  My subjective impression is that it has stimulated movement 
of birds that normally would have remained unnoticed around the edges of the 
lake.  It is also an opportunity to study tracks in the mud.  There is an 
awful lot of activity out there, night and day, both birds and mammals.  Come 
check it out!
     - Don Holt, Central, Carter Co., TN (Assistant Naturalist at Steele 
Creek Park, Bristol, TN)
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