Sunday afternoon on a TVA tower at one of the beaver ponds at Tellico Dam (Loudon County, Tenn.) I watched two great blue herons working on a nest. Another heron stood on a second nest on a different platform. These were both just the bare beginnings of nests. Two other stick piles with even fewer sticks were at other locations on the tower. In all 14 great blue herons were on the various platforms on the tower and at one point there were more than 30 black vultures also perched there. There was no interaction between the herons and vultures at all. The herons didn't appear to mind having vultures within a few feet of their nests. I stopped by Fort Loudon Dam (the fishing area just below the overlook) as I was leaving. It was raining so I just took a quick look from the car. The tower across the water that had at one time had nesting great blue herons had none--just what looked like more than 100 black vultures covering it. Carole Gobert Knox County, Tennessee =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________