Saturday morning March 5 from 8:30 until 11:30, eight members of the Chattanooga Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society roamed The Honors Golf Course (it is closed during the winter) in Ooltewah on a birding field trip. Those present included : Harold Birch, Ken Dubke, Carole Fegarido, Mike & Barbara McMahan, Alberta Oliver, Steve Snow & David Stone. A total of 39 species were seen between 8:30 & 11:30 Am. I addition I saw 6 more species either before the group arrived or later in the day after the field trip had ended. Bird species seen included: Wood Duck Mallard Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk; Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Morning Dove Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mocking Bird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle House Finch American Gold Finch Birds I saw either before the group showed up or later in the day after they had left included : Great Blue Heron, Sharp-shinned Hawk, Northern Flicker, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Hermit Thrush and Brown-head Cowbird. Misses (birds I had seen on the course lately) included : Purple Martin (2 males seen Feb. 22 & 23 but not seen since), Wild Turkey, Pileated Woodpecker, Golden-crowned Kinglet, Cedar Waxwing and Pine 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================