Hello All, I spent some time out in the Cove today, and stopped by a few places for a little birding. It was beautiful sunny day out, but the strong wind made things very chilly! Here's a list of what I saw... Water Treatment Ponds and surrounding fields: 9 Redheads 25 Bufflehead 20 Canada Geese 9 Mallards 6 Killdeeer 4 Wilson's Snipe 1 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Belted Kingfisher 5 Song Sparrows 20 + Meadowlark 20 + Bluebird 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 tufted titmouse 1 Carolina Chickadee Tons of Robins Tons of Crows Hyatt Lane/ Increase Fields: 6 Killdeer Tons of Robins, Crows, Meadowlark, and Bluebirds 1 American Kestrel 1 Cooper's Hawk 2 Carolina Wrens Old field, opposite of Abram's Falls trailhead: 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Cooper's Hawk (flushed out of the field by a coyote) 20+ Swamp Sparrows 25+ Song Sparrows Troy Evans volunteer, Great Smoky Mountains NP =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================