The Knoxville Chapter of TOS will be conducting the annual Knox County Spring Bird Count on Sunday, 26 April 2009. As usual, parties will be counting birds throughout Knox County on this day. All are welcome and encouraged to participate by either joining a field party or counting birds in your own neighborhood (if you live in Knox Co) similar to Project Feederwatch or the Great Backyard Bird Count. If you normally work this count and haven't gotten in touch with me yet, please let me know if you are or are not planning to count. If you would like to participate in the count, please contact me as well. There are several potentially good areas that go uncovered every year. And, as always, would love to have more folks that are interested in doing nocturnal birding for owls, Whip-Poor-Wills, Chuck-Wills-Widow, Common Nighthawk, etc. Submit your results to the compiler (Dean Edwards, 1615 Meadow Chase Ln, Knoxville TN 37931; kde@xxxxxxx) as soon as possible after the count. Results should include: -- checklist with numbers of each species observed -- location covered -- time of day you started and stopped counting -- separate tallies of miles and hours travelled by foot, car, boat, etc -- tally of miles and hours spent owling -- names of all participants with contact information for at least one person in the party. You may also be asked to provide documentation for any rare or unusual species. Dean Edwards 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 __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________