While riding around The Honors Golf Course in a golf cart for nearly 3 hours yesterday afternoon I saw the following birds: Mallard Great Blue Herron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Sharp Shinned Hawk Morning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe (a pair) Blue Jay Purple Martin Tree Swallow (several) Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Red-breasted Nuthatch (got a close look of it eating suet) White-breasted Nuthatch (going in and out of bird house) Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Brown Thrasher (first one seen March 16 this year) Northern Mocking Bird European Starling Cedar Waxwing (8) Yellow-rumped Warbler (many after seeing very few all winter) Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow (several - some eating buds off Elm trees) Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Purple Finch (female at sunflower feeder) House Finch American Gold Finch 1 unidentified warbler David Stone Ooltewah, Tn. Hamilton Co. =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================