The Rankin Bottoms Project is sponsoring the fifth annual litter pickup at Rankin Bottoms in Cocke county on 12/4/04 from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM. Gloves are recommended. We'll be working along from the RR crossing to the old bridge abutment. The muddy sections of the access road have been repaired, and the roads have been graded through the tipple and along the old RR bed across the bottoms. Gravelling should be completed by next weekend. Many thanks to TWRA and the Cocke County Highway Department. The Rankin floodplain has been fully exposed for a couple of weeks; birds are now relatively scarce in that area. At 1:00 on 12/4, we'll head over to Dutch Bottoms to survey birds along the shoreline and on the lake. There's usually an assortment of waterfowl, gulls, waders and shorebirds at this time of year. Leslie Gibbens, Coordinator The Rankin Bottoms Project Cocke county 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * 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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================