On Sunday, April 1 the KTOS is planning a birding trip along the French Broad River to visit Seven Islands (Knox county) and the new Bald Eagle nest on the opposite side of the French Broad River. We will meet at the Seven Islands parking lot at 7am and do some birding along the paved road until 10am. At 10am we will meet in the parking lot and car-pool to the private farm field where the Bald Eagle nest is located. You can meet at 10am if you just want to go see the eagle nest. It will be about a 20 min. drive from Seven Islands along the French Broad, although it is just on the other side of the river about a half a mile down stream. We will be parking on private land with landowner permission, but we will want to minimize the number of cars by car-pooling to the site (and then coming back to Seven Islands after). We also plan to try to visit an area where we can observe the 10 Great-blue Heron nests on one of the islands. We should get back to Seven Islands by 1pm. Bring scopes to look at the Bald Eagle nest, because we will also try to minimize our impact by observing from the other side of the field from the nest. We will go rain or shine (as long as we are not in thunderstorms). Directions to Seven Islands can be found on the TOS website. If you have any questions, send an e-mail to Jim Giocomo (jgiocomo@xxxxxxx) or Mark Campen (mcampen7@xxxxxxxxxxx). Hope to see you there. --Jim Giocomo Knoxville, TN ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =================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 _____________________________________________________________