On Monday 11-18-02 I birded a few areas of the little birded Scott County, TN The weather am was cold 30 with very light breezes and Sunny today Time in field 7 hrs. Specifically I checked the Oneida City Park Lake/ Elizabeth Lake (at the Oneida City Golf Course) the Scott County Airport and adjacent cattle lots/pastures and areas along the way. (This is a great area with hundreds of acres of pastureland with potential for some great rare finds) On the return home I drove back into Winona to Cordell/ending at Big Bull Creek in the afternoon. (SE area of county near Campbell County line) This was a remote area that of course had few birds this time of year but nice habitat/potential for Wood Warblers to be plentiful. I thought a COMMON LOON at the Oneida City Park to be a great find until I returned home and read the Tn bird list of a few thousand loons around in other areas! Still a great bird for me as a Scott County first record as far as I know. Partial list of other birds present there were: RING-NECKED DUCKS 33 BUFFLEHEAD 3 GADWALL 7 AM. COOT 7 PIED-BILLED GREBE 1 CANADA GOOSE 32 KILLDEER 38 AMERICAN PIPIT 2 COOPER'S HAWK 1 RED-TAILED HAWK 2 TURKEY VULTURE (flyover heading West) 39 AM. CROWS (stream of birds continually for several minutes) 88 ELIZABETH LAKE( Ponderosa Estates-Oneida Golf Course) CANADA GOOSE 117 RUDDY DUCKS 2 PB GREBE 10 RING-NECKED DUCK 16 GADWALL 6 SCOTT COUNTY AIRPORT/CATTLE FIELDS ADJACENT AMERICAN PIPIT 75+ several flocks of 15-30 and more moving around in different areas. 12 seen well and up close on ground in cow pasture. *BREWER'S BLACKBIRD 1 Best bird for today. Seen well walking in edge of cow pasture and studied from about 25 ft away. Other birds in this area were : WHITE-CROWNED SPARROW 8-10 Song Sp. Wh. Throated/ Swamp/ Chipping/ Junco and House Sp. Red-Tail Hawk- 3 Red-Shoulder 1 and 1 AMERICAN KESTREL. There were good numbers of several other expected species present also. Robins/ Goldfinch etc... Red-Winged Blackbirds/ Nell Moore Caryville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================