Date: 14 November 2009 Observers: Nita Heilman, Daniel Moss, Chris Obryan, Daniel Pitts, and Ching Li Wang Below is a list of birds observed on a Warioto Audubon field trip to Cross Creeks National Wildlife Refuge, Gray's Landing, and Paris Landing State Park last Saturday. Cross Creeks was not on the schedule originally, but ended up being a very nice spontaneous detour (and the last day of access for the season). Highlights included 1 adult Bald eagle, a number of Horned grebes, 8 species of ducks, and several Common loons. Cross Creeks: Canada goose - 300 Gadwall - 100 American wigeon - 25 Mallard - 15 Northern shoveler - 1 Northern pintail - 1 Ring-necked duck - 20 Lesser scaup - 1 Wild turkey - 13 Pied-billed grebe - 1 Double-crested cormorant - 1 Great blue heron - 8 Bald eagle - 1 Red-tailed hawk - 2 American coot - 12 Killdeer - 1 Ring-billed gull - 10 Belted kingfisher - 2 Red-bellied woodpecker - 1 Downy woodpecker - 1 Hairy woodpecker - 1 Northern flicker - 1 Eastern phoebe - 3 Blue jay - 5 American crow - 1 Carolina chickadee - 2 Carolina wren - 10 Winter wren - 2 Ruby-crowned kinglet - 2 Eastern bluebird - 1 Northern mockingbird - 1 European starling - 30 Yellow-rumped warbler - 3 Field sparrow - 2 Song sparrow - 5 Swamp sparrow - 3 White-throated sparrow - 2 Northern cardinal - 2 Eastern meadowlark - 8 Common grackle - 20 American goldfinch - 5 House sparrow - 4 Gray's Landing: Common loon - 1 Horned grebe - 1 Great blue heron - 1 American coot - 4 Ring-billed gull - 5 Paris Landing State Park: Bufflehead - 15 Common loon - 3 Horned grebe - 6 American coot - 10 Daniel Moss Clarksville, 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 _____________________________________________________________