Douglas Lake, Cocke county, 1/22/13, 1:30 PM Lake elevation: 985.2 ft. Water level increased 30 feet after the recent heavy rains - Douglas Lake is a flood control reservoir for the TVA system. Rankin Bottoms was inundated, looking like mid-August. Cleanup report: according to a county official, the KCCB truck hauled off 820 lbs. of trash picked up by volunteers at the Dec. 8 litter cleanup. Seen today: Great Blue Heron (9) Red-shouldered Hawk (juv.) Ring-billed Gull (1700) Bonapart's Gull - a few scattered among the others Yellow-rumped Warbler Common Raven (near Rankin Bridge) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN =================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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. _____________________________________________________________ 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 Clemson, SC __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________