Ths morning - 5/5/08 (about 5:30am) I woke up to the familiar "peent" of a Common Nighthawk in downtown Elizabethton. Also, this past Saturday (5/3/08) I went on the Sycamore Shoals bird walk that was part of the Naturalist Rally on Roan Mountain. Gary Wallace and about 5 other Lee and Lois Herndon Chapter Bird Club led a small group. This state park is in Elizabethton, Tennessee and is in Carter County. Highlights were Blue-winged Warbler, Magnolia Warbler, Yellow-breasted Chat, Worm-eating Warbler, and Yellow-breasted Chat. The complete list of birds we saw and/or heard were: Canada Goose Mallard Green Heron Spotted Sandpiper Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin European Starling Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Blue-winged Warbler Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Black and White Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow -- Rob Biller Elizabethton, 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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________