Well, it seems my sacrifice to the Gods of the internet has worked. I'm again recieving TN-bird posts, after over a week away. I did everything I could think of, so I'm not sure what even worked... Anyway, a strange thing has happened here. All the sparrows must have stumbled upon a sale of halloween costumes. Because now they all look (and sound like, and fly like) American Goldfinches (AMGO). Yesterday, and again today, where there had been a few hundred sparrows of 5 species, there are now 2-3 song and a slew of AMGOs. I hope that they'll turn into something unusual next! On an outing for the Tremont Fall Naturalist weekend this past Saturday, we kicked up turkeys just about everywhere we went - Cades Cove, Newfound Gap Road, Little River Road, etc charlie charlie ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Senior Naturalist Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont Townsend, TN lat 35 deg, 38'23" long 83 deg, 41'22" "Up, Sluggard, and waste not life; in the grave will be sleeping enough" - Ben Frankline, Poor Richard's Almanac __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site http://webhosting.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. ----------------------------------------------------- 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================