On Sunday, February 8th, Marilyn Burgess and I birded Old Johnsonville State Historic Area and the nearby Duck River Unit of the TN NWR in Humphreys County. Fields were flooded higher then I have seen in some spots at the Refuge and afforded close up looks at many ducks and others, an Orange-crowned Warbler being a nice highlight: Gr. White-fronted Goose - 6 Snow Goose - 75 Canada Goose - 100+ Wood Duck - 1 Gadwall Am. Widgeon Mallard N. Shoveler N. Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback - 6 Redhead Ring-necked Duck - 6 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Horned Grebe - 3 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture - 2 Northern Harrier - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Am. Coot Killdeer Ring-billed Gull - 25 Belted Kingfisher - 3 Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 1 N. Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Blue Jay American Crow CR Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Brown Creeper - 1 CR Wren Winter Wren - 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush - 1 Am. Robin N. Mockingbird European Starling Cedar Waxwing Orange-crowned Warbler - 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow N. Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird No Rusties, ran out of time to get to probable area. This week. One worn Mourning Cloak butterfly was seen near Johnsonville. A quick trip the TNNWR the previous Sunday, 2/1 yielded most of the same waterfowl in the flooded areas, plus the following: Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Dunlin - 2 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 20 John Froeschauer Nashville =================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/ 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 _____________________________________________________________