Hi folks, Yesterday we Tremonsters (folks who work at Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont) took a trip to see where the milk we serve to kids comes from. We visited Maifield Dairy (McMinn County( and Sweetwater Valley Farm (Monroe County). This was not a birding trip and I carried no optics, but still saw a number of birds. Highlights birdwise were a group of about 25 Cedar Waxwings in some fruit trees (Prunus sp) at Mayfield, and 2 Eurasian Collared Doves at the farm. This was my first sighting of collared doves in Tennessee northeast of Hamilton County. It was interesting seen all 3 dove/pigeons in one location. The Eurasian Collared Doves seem to have a different approach and landing when coming to utility wires than the Rock Pigeons do. They appear to start their approach from further away, slowing down sooner and coming in more level than the Rock Pigeons who coming and sort of drop down. Charlie ******************************************************************* 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 __________________________________________ Yahoo! DSL ? Something to write home about. Just $16.99/mo. or less. dsl.yahoo.com =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________