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[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Blount County, TN
December 11, 2005

Hi folks,

Yesterday Tracey and I did a short hike in the Smokies.  It was not a
birding hike, and we didn't even have optics.  Yet we still lucked
into some good observatins.

Ruffed Grouse:  1 at the north end of Foothills Parkway West in
Walland; one at the trailhead to Rabbit Creek Trail

Red Crossbills:  a small flock flying over Rabbit Creek Trail,
perhaps a mile from the Cades Cove end.

American Woodcock:  one in a TINY little seep on Rabbit Creek Trail.

At our home in south Blount Count, we have consistently have a
handful of Purple Finches and one lone White-crowned Sparrow, sharing
the feeders with a dozen or so House Finches, hordes of Northern
Cardinals, a couple dozen White-throated Sparrows and 20+ Mourning
Doves.

Good day!

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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