Birders:( Birds at Rankin Bottoms ) Today on Aug. 24, 2008 Shane & Dennis Adams went to fine the location to the Swann's Marina in Dandrige, TN. for the Pontoon trip on Sept. 6, 2008 and we stopped at Rankin Bottoms and saw about 3 or 4 Egrets, 3 Green Heron also at Leadville, Great Blue Herons about 4 (also at Leadville in White Pine and Dutch Bottoms ) about 12+ or more Eastern Kingbirds in the trees and flying and a unknown Warbler ( it has yellow body and a brown wings with double white stripes ), American Robins and some Swallows drinking from the water on the side of the gravel road and also small birds going in out of Rankin along the railroad tracks the look like American Pipits size of a goldfinch or house finch and there is no water at Rankin and the mudflats completely dry with no water. Shane Adams East of Hamblen County / Morristown, 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 _____________________________________________________________