Rankin area, Cocke & Hamblen counties, 5/27/11, by canoe Douglas elevation: 990.6 - mudflats & shallows broadening The best birding days have begun here- shorebird numbers increasing, with an early SEMIPALMATED PLOVER; more long-legged waders, including some LITTLE BLUE HERONS, among them a blue-swatched molting juvenile; and many now-vocal GREEN HERONS. Partial list: Wood duck (28) Double-crested cormorant (150+) Great egret (100+) Little blue heron (10 juv.) photo - http://www.pbase.com/image/136781627 Green heron (29, at least a dozen juv.) photo - http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/136781605 Black-crowned night-heron (32) Osprey (12) Killdeer (80+) Semipalmated plover photo - http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/136781643 Solitary sandpiper (10) Spotted sandpiper (12) Least sandpiper (4) Red-headed woodpecker Prothonotary warbler (5) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio 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 -------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________________________