On Saturday, Sept. 2, Rasmus (visiting birder/student from Denmark) visited Seven Islands in the morning (list below). I was hoping to help him find some new birds, especially those that would soon be migrating out of our area. He did see over a dozen life birds, but there are many more he can still hope for. The invitation: I plan to take him birding again on Monday. We'll spend the morning and afternoon visiting local sites, showing him habitat of east Tennessee, and building his US bird list (this is his first visit here). We plan to start on Sharps Ridge in Knoxville, about 8:00 a.m. Anyone wishing to join us for the day or part of the day let me know (or just show up on Sharps Ridge to start). We may go to such places as Kyker Bottoms and Kingston Steam Plant later in the day. As for Seven Islands... while we did get some good birds, Saturday was perhaps the quietest I've experienced out there. Maybe we happened to go at a time when many of the summer birds had left, and not many fall migrants had yet arrived. Of course, being Seven Islands, it was still a very good morning of birding (as it always seems to be there). Highlights included the two adult BALD EAGLEs circling low. We saw one go to the ground along the river, and assumed maybe it was feeding there. But soon we saw it again, followed by the second eagle, which must have been on the ground there already. The PROTHONOTARY WARBLER was a nice find, as they should soon be hard to find. Unfortunately, Rasmus was not able to see the CANADA WARBLER before it flew off. This could be a hard one for him to find again. The man-made wetland had no birds on it at all! We were hoping a heron and some shorebirds at least would be there. (there were also no dragonflies, as it was about 70 degrees and cloudy) In addition to the list below, we saw a couple of ducks flying (probably Wood Ducks), an Empidonax (possibly Least Flycatcher) and possibly an E Wood-Pewee. One species I really hoped we'd find, Grasshopper Sparrow, was not in evidence. Seven Islands list: Canada Goose Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle - 2 adults Cooper's Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel - 2 female (and/or imm) Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren House Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Northern Parula Prothonotary Warbler Canada Warbler Summer Tanager Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American Goldfinch Number of Species: 49 David Trently Knoxville, 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@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 _____________________________________________________________