14 September, 2007 Eagle Bend Fish Hatchery, Anderson County, TN 1700-1740. 72 F, calm, light rain at start, then rain stopping and a few patches of blue sky visible. Except for a few Killdeer, all the shorebirds were in the large uppermost pond. This pond is presently drained. Much of the plastic liner is covered with a mat of mostly brown aquatic vegetation. The shorebirds were clustered around pools of water on the mat of vegetation. This was the largest count of shorebirds that I have had at the hatchery in some time. I was a little surprised to not have any more herons or egrets. Canada Goose Mallard Blue-winged Teal - 23 Pied-billed Grebe - 3 Great Blue Heron - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 3 Killdeer - 36 Lesser Yellowlegs - 72 Solitary Sandpiper - 4 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 2 Western Sandpiper - 1 Least Sandpiper - 20 Unid. Peep - 10 (I didn't have my scope with me) Pectoral Sandpiper - 23 Stilt Sandpiper - 6 Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Chimney Swift - 30 Belted Kingfisher - 1 American Crow - 5 Tree Swallow - 11 Barn Swallow - 25 Song Sparrow - 4 Eastern Meadowlark - 8 Chuck Nicholson Norris, 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 _____________________________________________________________