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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Blount County, TN
Walker Valley

Today I've been out in the woods with some high schoolers from Shelby
County, KY.  Being older kids, they better appreciate the birds (and
are much better at finding them) than a lot of the younger kids that
I teach.  So I got to stop and look more often than usual!

And it was pretty active, even sans bins.  I saw:

1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo

Many thrushes, FINALLY.  Been missing them this year.  The few I was
able to ID were Swainsons.

Song Sparrow seem to be coming in.  Maybe I'll be lucky and get one
of those great birds like Chuck and Dean have had recently...

1 Black-throated Blue Warlber.  A co-worker told me she had one in
about the same exact spot several days ago.  Hmmm. 

GOBS of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks.  We've been  seeing groups of 12-15
regularly for nealy 2 weeks now.  They love the Dogwoods.  We see
them crossing back and forth above the athletic field regularly.

Good birding!

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist
Now living in Maryville, TN
Still working in Great Smoky Mountains 
National Park

"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm"
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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