Cocke county, 4/13/13, 4-7PM; by canoe Douglas Lake elevation: 983.4 ft, up 3 ft in the past 3 days, flooding most of the Rankin embayment Partial list: Snow Goose image- http://www.pbase.com/image/149669406/original Wood duck (8), & more to come - TWRA has put up dozens of new nestboxes. Blue-winged Teal (120) N. Shoveler (4) Pied-billed Grebe (2) Double-cr. Cormorant (18) Great Blue Heron (40+, 2 heronries: south of Rankin Bridge & west of Leadvale Trestle) Green Heron Osprey (8) Bald Eagle (5 juv.) Red-shouldered Hawk Am. Coot (2) Killdeer (4) Gr. Yellowlegs (14) Lesser Yellowlegs (28) Solitary Sandpiper Least Sandpiper (25) Wilson's Snipe Eastern Wood-Peewee Eastern Kingbird (FOS) Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (6) Am. Pipit (10) Prothonotary Warbler (FOS) Red-winged Blackbird (FOS) 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. _____________________________________________________________ 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 Clemson, SC __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________