4/8/04 Knoxville, TN I saw my first Chimney Swifts (4+) for the year in my North Hills (N. Knoxville) neighborhood today (4/8). Also, on Monday of this week (4/5) we saw a Lesser Scaup at the Kingston Steam Plant (Roane Co., TN) where we also saw the following species: Great Blue Heron Canada Goose Mallard Blue-winged Teal Osprey Red-shouldered Hawk Northern Bobwhite Killdeer Wilson's Snipe Ring-billed Gull Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin Brown Thrasher Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch Benny Thatcher Knoxville, TN =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================