Cades Cove GSMNP Blount Co. On Sunday, October 28th, Kris Johnson and I walked from Sparks Lane to Hyatt Lane through the brush fields. This area has become much more productive for bird finding since what was once nothing but fescue has been allowed to return to natural vegetation. It is also quite beautiful. Here's our list: Canada Goose 15 (sewage ponds) Ring-necked Duck 1 (sewage ponds) Ruddy Duck 2 (sewage ponds) Wild Turkey 11 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Northern Harrier 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Mourning Dove 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 6 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 6 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 5 American Crow 17 Carolina Chickadee 8 Tufted Titmouse 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Carolina Wren 7 House Wren 1 Winter Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 9 American Robin 2 Brown Thrasher 1 Cedar Waxwing 16 Yellow-rumped Warbler 12 Palm Warbler 3 Eastern Towhee 8 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 4 Savannah Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 42 Swamp Sparrow 13 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 2 Red-winged Blackbird 10 Eastern Meadowlark 5 Pine Siskin 1 American Goldfinch 11 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 _____________________________________________________________