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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

With all the spring flowers popping up, and the anglewing butterflies
getting pretty thick (though I've not yet seen a Mourning Cloak -
where are ours?) I heard the forecast for last night was warm with a
front coming through.  Goodie!

Left the windows open when I went to bed, following a get together
with 14 friends and some liquid refreshments out of both bottles and
jars.

So at 6:36 this morning when I heard the loud whistling over the
sound of the Middle Prong of the Little River, it didn't register. 
After a couple minutes the fog (in my head, not outside) cleared
enough for me to spring out of bed, grab my binoculars, then a pair
of pants and rush outside to see my first LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH of
the year.  He was a beauty, singing away on a branch a foot over the
cooold (I know, I was in it last night) water.

However the combination of excitement, bare feet and foggy mind cause
me to loose my footing on the steep bank.  I don't know how I was
able to keep from plunging into the cold water, but my backside sure
was unhappy as I climbed back up!

Oh, well.  It was worth it.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Townsend, TN  lat 35 deg, 38'23"  long 83 deg, 41'22"

"Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough"
 - Ben Frankline, Poor Richard's Almanac

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