Despite the heat there were good numbers and varieties of birds today at the Kyker Bottoms TWRA refuge. Number of species: 46 Canada Goose Wood Duck American Black Duck Mallard Northern Bobwhite Great Egret Green Heron Black Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Eastern Screech-Owl Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher Cedar Waxwing Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole American Goldfinch And a pair of possible juvenile Snowy Egrets Bob Howdeshell Maryville, Tennessee bhowdy.smugmug.com =================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 _____________________________________________________________