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     Thursday, March 6, at Limestone I saw over one hundred HORNED LARKS 
beside Keebler Rd, but no Lapland Longspurs.  Also on Big Limestone Creek 
Road I counted 40 WILSON'S SNIPE by the flooded creek, or at least their 
little round heads poking out of the grass.
     Friday, March 7, I stopped at Birds Bridge on the Nolichucky River in 
Greene Co. to check for amphibians in the flooded slough in the woods there.  
It was after 6 pm.  I flushed an AMERICAN WOODCOCK.  I also spied several 
WOOD DUCKS settling in to the slough for the night (and a MUSKRAT).
     Saturday, March 8, while participating in the Elizabethton Bird Club 
Bluebird workday at Tipton Haynes Farm in Johnson City, I heard an EASTERN 
PHOEBE, and identified an ORANGE SULPHUR butterfly that LARRY MCDANIEL saw 
first.  It was the first non-anglewing butterfly of the year that I had seen 
and LARRY MCDANIEL showed it to me.  Thank you LARRY MCDANIEL, good spot!!!  
Also, later that afternoon, Larry showed Howard Langrich, Allan Trently and I 
a stand of SKUNK CABBAGE.
     Sunday, March 9, at Bowmantown Wetland, I saw a SAVANNAH SPARROW, three 
SWAMP SPARROWS, several RED-WINGED BLACKBIRDS, a RED-TAILED HAWK, and a 
PILEATED WOODPECKER.  I was joined by Larry McDaniel.  We waited until after 
dark but didn't hear any Woodcock or other nocturnal bird spp.  We did 
however hear SPRING PEEPERS, UPLAND CHORUS FROGS and PICKEREL FROGS.  We also 
saw a bat that didn't seem to be a Red Bat.  It flew with a faster wingbeat 
at a higher level and seemed smaller; maybe a Pipistrelle.

Don Holt
Johnson City, TN
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