Spent the morning at Woods Reservoir looking for lesser black-backed gull and enjoying the large numbers of common loons and horned grebes. I counted 273 horned grebes from one spot on the dam and they were everywhere, so 300 is probably conservative. Never identified a lesser black-backed gull but ran into Ruth Luckado and we gave it our best shot. I did get a nice close look at a pair of greater scaup (state bird) near some lesser scaup and ring-necked ducks for comparison. Location: Woods Reservoir Observation date: 11/28/08 Number of species: 58 Canada Goose X Gadwall X American Wigeon X American Black Duck X Mallard X Northern Pintail X Green-winged Teal X Canvasback X Ring-necked Duck X Greater Scaup X Lesser Scaup X Bufflehead X Hooded Merganser X Ruddy Duck X Common Loon X Pied-billed Grebe X Horned Grebe 273 Double-crested Cormorant X Great Blue Heron X Black Vulture X Turkey Vulture X Bald Eagle X Red-shouldered Hawk X Red-tailed Hawk X American Kestrel X American Coot X Killdeer X Bonaparte's Gull X Ring-billed Gull X Rock Pigeon X Mourning Dove X Belted Kingfisher X Red-bellied Woodpecker X Northern Flicker X Eastern Phoebe X Blue Jay X American Crow X Carolina Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch X Carolina Wren X Ruby-crowned Kinglet X Eastern Bluebird X American Robin X Northern Mockingbird X European Starling X Cedar Waxwing X Yellow-rumped Warbler X Palm Warbler X Eastern Towhee X Field Sparrow X Savannah Sparrow X Song Sparrow X White-throated Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco X Northern Cardinal X Common Grackle X American Goldfinch X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) (Also think I saw a house wren in a brushy area but it seems too late[?].) David kirschke Nashville, 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/ 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 _____________________________________________________________