Spent an hour this morning walking around both ponds at Phipps Bend in Hawkins County. Partial list of birds: American Kestrel (1) Common Raven (1 - first encounter here in many months) Great Egret (32) Cattle Egret (1) Great Blue Heron (2) Little Blue Heron (2) Black-crowned Night Heron (1 - small pond) Green Heron (1) Killdeer (12) Lesser Yellowlegs (1) small unidentified sandpipers (6 at small pond..didn't have a scope) Belted Kingfisher (4) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1) White-eyed Vireo (1 singing) Common Yellowthroat Rick Phillips -- Rick Phillips Lecturer Biological Sciences East Tennessee State University =================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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________