Wednesday 09 NOV 2005 Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greene Co., TN D. Holt This morning I found a LECONTE'S SPARROW in a hayfield behind the 4-H Center, getting a very good, long look at it from about thirty feet through 8X binoculars, seeing plainly the striped nape, white crown stripe, orange supercilium, streaked sides of the breast, and sharply pointed tail feathers (it wins my vote for the prettiest sparrow species). It was in the same field where I found a Leconte's Sparrow last December on the 2004 Greeneville Christmas Bird Count. Unlike last year, this year the field has just recently been bush-hogged. This afternoon I took a class of sixth graders from Rogersville, TN into the field to search for it. We followed a low flying sparrow around the field from spot to spot until we got a good look at it, but it turned out to be a Savannah Sparrow that time. Don Holt Johnson City, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________