Black Bayou WMA Phillippy Pits Cates landing Levee to Jolly's landing Tiptonville River Park Birded for a while yesterday morning looking for water and sandbars. The Miss. River is dropping some. Just a strip of bar showing from the park at Tiptonville. Phillippy Pits has very little water and there is water by the road on the Levee side of where the Ibis Hole is located. There is still water at the pump house in Black Bayou but it is in need of refreshing or it will be dry soon. Sightings: Purple Martins Rough winged swallows Barn Swallows Tree swallows Mallards Wood Duck Little Blue Herons Great Blue Herons Great Egrets Snowy Egret Green Herons Black Crowned Night Heron Pied Billed Grebes. Black Vultures Turkey Vultures Imm. Bald Eagles Mississippi Kite Rufus Sided Towee Cardinal Dicksissel Yellow Breasted Chat. (Seen and heard.) RT Hummingbird Prothonotary Warbler Downy WP White breasted Nuthatch Robins Cowbirds RW Blackbirds E. Bluebirds Least Sandpipers (Off Jolly Landing levee toward Cates landing) Indigo Buntings Mourning Doves Eurasian Collared Doves Rock Dove Song Sp. Field Sp. Osprey A. Crow E. sparrow Grackles Red Shoulder Hawk Mockingbird Starlings Common Yellow Throat Killdeer Canada Geese- 6 Nancy Moore Bluebasin Cove B&B Reelfoot lake Lake Co, Tn =================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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________