Cades Cove Blount County GSMNP On Saturday, February 3, Karen Petrey and I walked around the Sparks Lane section of Cades Cove. It was very cold and windy, and we recorded only 22 species, as follows: Canada Goose 36 Mallard 9 Bufflehead 63 RUDDY DUCK 1 NORTHERN BOBWHITE 12 (seen from the road, running through the underbrush) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Wilson's Snipe 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 3 American Crow 8 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Carolina Wren 2 Eastern Bluebird 14 Hermit Thrush 1 Song Sparrow 6 Swamp Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 11 Northern Cardinal 1 Susan Hoyle Knoxville, TN =================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 _____________________________________________________________