Birders:( BirdWatching @ Dutch Bottoms & Rankin in Cocke County ) Today on Oct. 8, 2006 Shane and Dennis Adams have gone to birdwatching at Dutch Bottoms and Rankin in Cocke County we saw some birds; First at Dutch Bottoms: 3 Semipalmated SandPipers, Great Blue Herons & Great White Egrets ( also at Rankin and also at Leadville side in White Pine ) Ring Billed Gulls, Black Tern, 3 Pied Billed Grebes, Cliff Swallows ( on the mudflats in between the 2 silos; also possible at Rankin mixed in with Tree Swallows ), Double Crested Cormorants ( also at Rankin ) Second at Rankin; Vultures,( two unknown birds in the Willows on the right side of the road coming back from Coal Tipple and also left of side of the gate road going onto the gate road ), Belted Kingfisher, and last but not least I did not see any shorebirds on the mudflats next to water on both sides of the gate road enjoy the post. Shane Adams East of Hamblen County Morristown, TN. 37813 =================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 _____________________________________________________________