Foothills Parkway, closed section north of US 321 Blount County Wednesday, December 29 ~noon to ~ 2pm Hi folks, It sure is hard to bird when you've got a 7 month-old on your back, a 7 year-old neice running around, a wife and mother-in-law to keep up with and 2 holidays-crazed dogs... But our hike up the Foothills Parkway was still nice, given the beautiful weather, and I still got to see and hear a number of nice winter birds. (From memory and not in order - so shoot me) Red-breasted Nuthatch 2 Dark-eyed Junco many Golden-crowned Kinglet 10 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Carolina Wren 3 Black-capped Chickadee 1 (and 2 others possible) Carolina Chickadee 10 Tufted Titmouse 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 American Crow several Blue Jay several Eastern Phoebe 1 American Goldfinch several Pileated Woodpecker 2 Downy Woodpecker 2 White-throated Sparrow 5 or 6 (where are they this year?) Song Sparrow 1 Happy New Year. And *please* let me know if you find anything good in Blount County in 2005! Charlie ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist near Great Smoky Mountains National Park "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey ************************************************** __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================