April 24, 2010 [posted April 25] Greene County: Joachim Bible Refuge unit of Lick Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area (JBR), Wal-Mart Distribution Center (WMDC), Kinser Park (KP), numerous other sites Greeneville's Spring Bird Count was held yesterday. Results have not been tabulated, but here is a partial list from my day in the field as a participant: Blue-winged Teal (14 JBR etc.) Green-winged Teal (10 JBR) Ruddy Duck (JBR; quite surprising) Northern Bobwhite (10 JBR, including a couple that walked across the road not more than ten feet in front of me) Great Egret (3 JBR) Black-crowned Night-Heron (KP) Osprey (KP) Sora (4 JBR) Spotted Sandpiper Solitary Sandpiper (7 JBR etc.) Greater Yellowlegs (7 JBR etc.) Lesser Yellowlegs (4 JBR etc.) Least Sandpiper American Woodcock (6 displaying, JBR) Black-billed Cuckoo (JBR; only my fourth record in the county, and the first since May 28, 2001) Great Horned Owl (3 JBR etc.) Chuck-will's-widow Red-headed Woodpecker (2 Green Road) Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird (13) White-eyed Vireo (5) Yellow-throated Vireo Horned Lark (singing, Baughard Hill Road) Cliff Swallow (6) Wood Thrush Northern Parula (2) Black-throated Blue Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler (5) Prairie Warbler (5) Black-and-white Warbler (2) Ovenbird (8) Northern Waterthrush (WMDC, in the thin strip of wet woods between the second pond and the railroad track) Louisiana Waterthrush (2) Common Yellowthroat (45) Hooded Warbler (7) Savannah Sparrow (5) White-crowned Sparrow (11) Scarlet Tanager (2) Indigo Bunting (3) Rusty Blackbird (a nice surprise) Orchard Oriole (2) Don Miller Greeneville, Greene Co., 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 -------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________________________