-----Original Message----- From: tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of David Stone Sent: Sat 8/30/2008 8:49 AM To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [TN-Bird] Late Aftrnoon Birding At The Honors Course getting cut off. My computer expertise is not good enough for me to figure out what is wrong yet. Hopefully anything of interest will get to everyone. Yesterday evening from 6:30 PM until 7:30 I birded at The Honors Golf Course. It turned out to be great timing. During that hour I saw 35 species. Tops for me was a male Magnolia Warbler feeding on insects on a dead tree. The lack of leaves enabled me to get a much better view than normal. Wondering if a Magnolia would respond to the playing of it's song (and particularly interested if it would respond since the breeding season was over), I played a recording of a Magnolia. It most definitely did respond. Other than common birds, I also saw several Wild Turkey (including some half grown and some only 1/4 grown) a Black & White Warbler (in same area near Magnolia Warbler), a Northern Waterthrush and Blue Grosbeaks (female with 2 immatures). I had been seeing male and female Blue Grosbeaks all summer but that was the first time I had seen immatures. Other bird species included: Mallard Great Blue Herron Green Herron (adults and immatures) Killdeer (eating insects in fairways) Morning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Pine Warbler (also eating insects in fairways) Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American Goldfinch David Stone The Honors course Ooltewah, Tn. 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