UT avian ecology and management field trip to the Hiwassee area resulted in 60 spp including 8(!) Whooping Cranes mixed in with ~500 Sandhills at Armstrong Ferry, 2 Loggerhead Shrikes along Hwy 302 NE of Dayton, 8 rusty blackbirds at Candies Creek, and 4-6 Ruddy Ducks on the river viewed from the Cherokee Removal Memorial site. Whole spp. list is below Location: Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge Observation date: 2/13/11 Number of species: 60 Canada Goose X Wood Duck 2 Gadwall X American Wigeon 2 American Black Duck X Mallard X Canvasback X Ring-necked Duck X Bufflehead X Hooded Merganser X Ruddy Duck X Wild Turkey X Double-crested Cormorant X Great Blue Heron X Black Vulture X Turkey Vulture X Bald Eagle X Northern Harrier X Sharp-shinned Hawk X Cooper's Hawk X Red-shouldered Hawk X Red-tailed Hawk X American Kestrel X Sandhill Crane X Whooping Crane 8 Killdeer 1 Wilson's Snipe 3 Bonaparte's Gull 1 Ring-billed Gull X Rock Pigeon X Mourning Dove X Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-headed Woodpecker 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker X Downy Woodpecker X Northern Flicker X Eastern Phoebe X Loggerhead Shrike 2 Blue Jay X American Crow X Carolina Chickadee X Tufted Titmouse X White-breasted Nuthatch X Brown-headed Nuthatch X Carolina Wren X Golden-crowned Kinglet X Ruby-crowned Kinglet X Eastern Bluebird X American Robin X Northern Mockingbird X Brown Thrasher X European Starling X Yellow-rumped Warbler X Eastern Towhee X Song Sparrow X White-throated Sparrow X Red-winged Blackbird X Eastern Meadowlark X Rusty Blackbird 8 House Sparrow X Than Boves Knoxville, 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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________