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["Rick Phillips" <sunfish0501@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I walked a bit of the Greenbelt trail near American Way this morning hoping to 
see or hear the Red-shouldered Hawks.  I didn't see or hear any, but one walker 
told me he had repeatedly seen a pair on up the trail toward the Exchange 
Place.  I didn't see any Yellow-crowned Night Herons, but the nests from past 
years were quite visible.  The roar from all the Upland Chorus Frogs made it 
difficult to hear much.  There must have been thousands of them calling from 
the vernal pools along the floodplain of reedy creek.  Didn't hear any peepers, 
but they might have been drowned out by all the chorus frog noise.  Tree 
Swallows are now investigating the nest boxes around my house in north 
Kingsport and House Finches have a nest with eggs near my front deck.

Rick

Rick Phillips
Kingsport, Tennessee