Birders: ( BirdWatching @ Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area & Cherokee Dam ) Today on July 16, 2006 Shane and Dennis Adams went birdwatching @ Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area in Jefferson City & Cherokee Dam between Jefferson & Grainger Counties: First at Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area Blinds 1 & 2 we saw 2 Belted Kingfishers walking towards viewing blind 1 about 12+ Chimney Swifts flying over both viewing blinds 1 & 2, Red-Winged Blackbird in the cattails in front of viewing blind 1, Great Blue Heron in the weeds in front of viewing blind 2 and also at Cherokee Dam about 5, Green Heron also in front of the Viewing Blind 2 / Also at down the end of the road west of Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area in the ( Refuge ) Different types of Swallows, Black Crowned Night Heron ( Flying ), about 20 + Eastern Kingbirds flying over the Cherokee Lake and drinking water, also 2 Eastern Kingbirds at Mossy Creek Wildlife Viewing Area in front of the viewing blind 2 sitting on water sprinklers in the wetlands, Great Blue Heron, Heard but not seen 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoos, Black Vulture flying over the farmland next to Mossy Creek Viewing Area parking lot sorry I did not take any pictures of the birds today. Shane Adams East of Hamblen County Morristown, TN. 37813 =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________