The Chattanooga Chapter of The Tennessee Ornithological Society is pleased to announce that Dr. David Pitts, of University of Tennessee, Martin, will be presenting the June program at 7:00pm, Thursday June 8, on Carolina Chickadee's, Dr Pitts, UTM Ornithologist, is a widely published author on cavity nesting birds. The species accounts for Eastern Bluebird and Carolina Chickadee in The Tennessee Breeding bird Atlas are among his publications. David has been a member of TOS since 1965 and was awarded the organizations highest accolade, The Distinguished Service Award in 1994. His program on Thursday night will focus on his nest box studies of the familiar Carolina Chickadee. Pleas come and learn all about this common backyard resident. The main program will be preceded by a short "Bird-of-the-month'' presentation on the Red-tailed Hawk by, Bob Edens. Light refreshments will be served. As always, visitors are welcome. CTOS meets every 2nd Thursday at 7:00 at Ascension Lutheran Church, 720 S. Germantown Rd. (a few blocks south of the Germantown Rd exit on I-24. For more information contact: David F. Vogt, Chattanooga, Hamilton Co, TN 423/785-4036 =================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 _____________________________________________________________