[TN-Bird] Re: Rankin birds returning
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:56:12 -0400
TN-Birds:
I in no way meant to send the last reply which was directed to Michael
Sledjeski to the entire list. I have written a note to him and expressed my
regret that happened. Please excuse the personal comments. Like everyone
else, I made an error and will try not to let that happen again.
Let's go birding....
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
----- Original Message -----
From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>; "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "petewyatt"
<pete.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 1:49 AM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Rankin birds returning
> Michael:
> Please include the county for which you see birds. Also please, when you
> sign your name, put the city (town) and state abbreviation where you live
> following your name. We are always having new subscribers come on the list
> and many of them have no idea whatsoever where some of these places are or
> where you or I may be. It is just unfriendly, unfair and unproductive to
> write insider messages and leave them on the outside because they are not
> yet in the know.
> We need to get together sometime and let you show me some birds from
canoe.
> I would love to band any of the breeding colonies or even young Ospreys if
> we can find a way to get to any of them. Take care.
>
> Let's go birding....
> Wallace Coffey
> Moderator TN-Birds
> Bristol, TN
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "michael sylva" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
> To: "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "petewyatt"
<pete.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:45 PM
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Rankin birds returning
>
>
> > Douglas Lake has risen past the coal tipple at Rankin Bottoms, and there
> were plenty of birds there this morning. Most unusual was a female
> Long-tailed Duck, a first for the area. She stayed close to a mallard
> drake, and followed him when he flew around, then downriver. There were
> several gangs of Yellowlegs, about 20 Greater and 40+ Lesser. We saw 4
> Pectoral Sandpipers, and a couple other similar shorebirds that we
couldn't
> I.d. Also:
> > Blue-winged Teal: 75+, everywhere in the grassy shallows
> > Wood Duck: a group of 6 pairs, plus 4 separate pairs
> > Double-crested Cormorant: 100+
> > Great Blue Heron: 18
> > Great Egret: 2
> > Green Heron: 2
> > Osprey: 3 (one grabbed a bright red carp and hauled it like a banner
back
> to the nest)
> > Bald Eagle: 1 2nd-year
> > Common Snipe: 2
> > Ring-billed Gulls: 100+
> > Prothonotary Warbler: 8
> > Yellow-rumped Warbler: 5
> > White-eyed vireo:1
> > Some Eastern Kingbirds, Tree Swallows, Downy Woodpeckers, Turkey
Vultures,
> and, of course, Canada Geese, Mallards, and Red-winged Blackbirds.
> >
> > Check it out, let us know what you find there.
> >
> > Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens
> >
> > Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens
> >
> >
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