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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

Today I conducted the Mt Olive Breeding Bird Survey route, which goes
between Knox and Blount Counties (If you like to look at numbers on
the computer, this is route 82-040 and the website for BBS routes is
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/BBS)

This is the 5th year I've run this route, and it was run for many
years before I got here.  Wild Turkey was not on the "official route
list" indicating that this species has never been documented on the
route.  I certainly haven't had it.

However today I found Wild Turkeys on THREE different stops.  This
was exciting.  Of course, this being a new species, I felt compelled
to investigate the possibility of caged turkeys, so I had to stop to
look around a bit.  I am confident that this was not possbily the
case in 2 of the 3 stops.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

"To the dull mind all nature is leaden.  To the illuminated mind 
the whole world sparkles with light."  - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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