Our son, Corey along with his 3-year-old daughter Madeline invited us to go with them on her first fishing trip on Nickajack Lake, Marion County. We put in at the Shellmound boat ramp on the West side of the lake, checked the milfoil strips around the Dam and up to the crossover to the Nickajack Cave enty and the cove area that includes the Cave. We? observed 30 species of birds from 1:30 - 4:00 PM CDT. All the shorebirds were on the milfoil slick closest to the Dam on the west side of the lake. By the way, Madeline caught six fish (two Sunfish and four Bream). Species highlights include: Wood Duck - 16 Blue-winged Teal - 75 Northern Shoveler - 1 Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Osprey - 1 Ruddy Turnstone - 1 Sanderling - 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 4 Least Sandpiper - 1 Baird's Sandpiper - 2 Caspian Tern - 1 Forster's Tern - 5 Black Tern - 12 Fish Crow - 2 Cliff Swallow - 1 Eastern Kingbird - migrating group of 14 ? Daniel & Kathy Jacobson "Poppy & Mimi" Hixson, Hamilton County, Tennessee ? ? ? ? ? ________________________________________________________________________ Email and AIM finally together. You've gotta check out free AOL Mail! - http://mail.aol.com =================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 _____________________________________________________________