Spent another delightful afternoon trudging around Kingston Steam Plant in Roane County, Tenn. Sat., 1/12/08, from 1:20 to 4:50 pm A beautiful adult RED SHOULDERED HAWK posed cooperatively in a tree close by for 5 minutes or more, sometimes looking right at me and deciding that I was harmless. Seven sleepy COMMON GOLDENEYES drifted down the river occasionally raising their heads. Sixteen huge black birds flew low overhead toward the trees across Swan Pond Road (DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS but what a sight!). Later spotted 6 in the river on the back side of the ponds. And those comical, jaunty looking HOODED MERGANSERS kept popping up just about everywhere; they're skittish and keep moving around making it devilishly had to count them, so I just counted the largest concentration on the large pond (where there had been just 29 an hour or so earlier). This is what I counted: Canada Goose 19 Gadwall 1 male Mallard 6 Green-winged Teal 1 male Bufflehead 1 female (soccer field pond) Common Goldeneye 7 (2 M, 5 F) Hooded Merganser 83 Double-crested Cormorant 16 Great Blue Heron 5 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 1 American Coot 2 Killdeer 2 Ring-billed Gull ~70 Belted Kingfisher 2 Northern Flicker 2 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 5 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 6 Eastern Bluebird 15 American Robin 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 Song Sparrow 16 American Goldfinch 3 Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee =================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 _____________________________________________________________