Today a small group of bird banders set up six nets to contiue the bird monitoring at Seven Islands Wildlife Refuge in SE Knox County, TN. Today we caught 45 birds including 7 recaptures. Species included Willow Flycatchers 3 Field Sparrows 5 (2 Recaptures) Common Yellowthroat 4 (1R) Carolina Chickadee 1 American Goldfinch 1 (1R) Indigo Bunting 12 (1R) Northern Cardinal 1 Song Sparrow 2 Carolina Wren 1 (1R) Northern Mockingbird 3 Eastern Towhee 1 (1R) Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 This is a continuation of the bird monitoring efforts conducted in cooperation with the Seven Islands Foundation, The Knoxville Chapter of TOS, The Knoxville Zoological Gardens, and the Department of Forestry, Wildlife and Fisheries at UT, Knoxville. Our next bird banding session will be on Sunday, August 27. We will meet at Seven Islands at 6am to set up nets and run the nets until lunch time. All are welcome. If you are interested in learning about bird banding, or you are willing to become a regular volunteer, let me know and I will give you more details. --Jim Giocomo Knoxville, TN ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. =================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 _____________________________________________________________