15 Nov 2003 8:15 a.m. Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge Meigs Co., TN A single migrant Whooping Crane was seen this morning just after 8 a.m. at the Hiwassee Refuge, according to a telephone report made to me at 8:15 a.m. by Ken Dubke of Chattanooga. The bird was feeding in a field. Dubke said the bird was first observed Thursday evening at 5:10 p.m. Dubke observed the bird flying in the area Friday evening just before sunset. Friday evening Kevin Calhoon e-mailed me to say he had just got a call from Chris Mahoney that a single Whooping Crane was sighted at Hiwassee (his guess was that it was at Blythe Ferry) on Thursday evening.! According to Dubke this is possibly a bird from one of the assisted migration efforts from two years ago. Dubke reported a 1,000 Sandhill Cranes also at Hiwassee. Let's go birding...... Wallace Coffey Bristol, 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================