backyard and woods, west Knox County, Tues, 22 May 2007 WILSON'S WARBLER, 1 singing, 23rd yard-warbler this year, 32nd yard-warbler in almost 5.5 years here, yard bird #150 Only regular warblers missing on the yardlist now are Mourning, Swainson's, both waterthrushes and YB Chat. Other highlights: American Redstart, 1 female quietly working the woods further lending to speculation that they may be nesting Summer Tanager, 1 has been piti-tucking constantly for 4 days now have never bred here Scarlet Tanager, 1 singing male in hot pursuit of a female and engaging in some suspicious behavior on Monday morning (21 May) he followed her into a bunch of leaves where I lost sight of them momentarily also have never confirmed breeding here but that looked mighty suspiciously like copulation Dean Edwards 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 _____________________________________________________________