This report is a belated report that should have been reported on Saturday night. My schedule that night changed with onoe phone call while coming back in from birding and of course, Sunday was spend all day in the field with Don Holt (which he reported about). By the time I arrived back in Sunday evening it was just enough time to eat and host the bird chat on AOL Sunday night @ 9. Then I was too pooped to do much else but sleep and Monday was work - birding (which Wallace Coffey reported) and back to work. For those keeping records, this reports reflects Saturday April 9, 2005. Watauga Lake, Butler Area, Little Milligan, and Pond Mountain was covered in our daylight to noon + birding in Carter County. We had a handful +2 Warblers, 2 Vireos, all 3 Mimic Thrushes, a heron another color than blue, and a Brown Creeper singing along the northern end of Watauga Lake. First for the year is in all CAPS The complete list follows: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser RUFFED GROUSE (2 drumming, 1 strutting across road) Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-belliled Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe WHITE-EYED VIREO BLUE HEADED VIREO Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Northern-roughed Winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse BROWN CREEPER (singing) Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird BROWN THRASHER European Starling NORTHERN PARULA Yellow-rumped Warbler BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER LOUISANA WATERTHRUSH Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Commn Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch Rob Biller Elizabethton, 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================