Location: Goodwater Road, Stepp Rd, Cocke Co, TN Observation date: 4/5/09 1 hour each, early afternoon and evening walking around farm fields, yard, old buildings, creek (Oven Cr) and Nolichucky River Number of species: 45 Canada Goose 2 (on Nolichucky) Wood Duck 1 M (female must be sitting) Mallard 1 M (female must be sitting) Wild Turkey 16 (8 hens, 8 jakes) Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 2 Turkey Vulture 7 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Killdeer 2 Mourning Dove 6 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Downy Woodpecker 2 Northern Flicker 3 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 7 (3 pairs nesting, one single) Blue Jay 3 American Crow 4 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 7 Carolina Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 6 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Carolina Wren 6 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 FOS Eastern Bluebird 1 American Robin 2 Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 2 European Starling 15 Cedar Waxwing 8 (eating sycamore seeds) Louisiana Waterthrush 3 (2 must have a nest; they scold when we get near the creek) Eastern Towhee 2 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 3 (one pair nesting in privet hedge) White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 19 Red-winged Blackbird 17 Eastern Meadowlark 2 Common Grackle 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 2 Purple Finch 12 House Finch 4 Pine Siskin 2 American Goldfinch 14 Jean Obrist Bruner's Grove Cocke Co, TN Other species of note: bats, beaver This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) =================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 _____________________________________________________________