Cades Cove GSMNP Blount County Martha Rudolph and I wolked the fields around Sparks Lane and recorded the following species, except where noted: Canada Goose 15 Bufflehead 3 (Sewage Ponds) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 GREATER YELLOWLEGS 1 (Sewage Ponds) Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 4 Eastern Phoebe 1 American Crow 10 Carolina Chickadee 1 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 7 Winter Wren 1 SEDGE WREN 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 6 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 3 Field Sparrow 3 FOX SPARROW 1 Song Sparrow 23 Swamp Sparrow 5 Northern Cardinal 2 American Goldfinch 13 Also seen: 3 coyotes; an 8-point buck. There was a "bear jam" on the Loop Road with 4 bears in a tree. Fortunately we missed this! Susan Hoyle Knoxville, 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/ 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 _____________________________________________________________