In a message dated 9/8/2002 1:44:36 PM Central Daylight Time, Lisa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes: > Anyone wishing to chat birds/animals or help out a newcomer, please feel > free to email me. > Hi Lisa, I too am a newcomer bird watcher. I have feeders and watch the birds all day, but don't think we have anything unusual here. I am unfamiliar with whereabouts in TN Erin is. I'm in Memphis and my husband says he sees herons as he goes out east to work. I'm excited that I've had 3 hummingbirds show up in the past week. We see them for a few weeks and then they are gone till next year. Other that them I have a LOT of sparrows, wrens, blackbirds (one red wing), starlings and doves. Mourning and some larger, pale ring necked ones that I love. Even some pigeons have found their way to my feeders this year. I sit and watch them and have realized how different and pretty pigeons are no matter what anyone else says! I just found this newsgroup when I looked up Audubon.com to see about the center in Holly Springs where the hummingbirds where going to be this wknd. We didn't get to go see them though. Like you said in your letter, I'm interested in learning how to know about birds and welcome anyone who wants to share information. Micky Brown Memphis TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================