All, Let me 1st say that this doesn't directly pertain to birding in TN. If you aren't interested in pix from a trip outside TN, please disregard now. For anyone interested, I have a new gallery with a lot of shots from a terrific trip to Venezuela last month. Consider this a precursor, as Chris Sloan will be following-up with a collection of shots from everyone, where several of these same shots will probably be. Chris and Clyde Blum in particular got a lot of great shots, as their D-SLR's and 400mm lenses performed very well down there. I did carry my scope, and did some digiscoping whenever I could, which helped with some of the distant birds. If you're only going to look at one set of photos, probably consider looking at Chris'. I'll let Chris spill most of the beans, as he put the trip together, but we had well over 500 species on the trip. A disproportionate number of Harpy Eagle shots are included in my gallery, because, well because it's a Harpy Eagle! My gallery is arranged in taxonomic order, and as usual, many of the shots aren't exactly pretty! The gallery can be viewed here: http://www.pbase.com/mctodd/venezuela Good Birding!! Mike Todd McKenzie, TN birder1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx www.pbase.com/mctodd =================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/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________