Took a trip to Reelfoot Lake with the Ornithology class at ETSU this weekend 2-23 to 2-26. Had some great birding and beat last years 97 species seen with 102. The following is the complete list of birds seen. We did see the 3 Tundra Swans. Greater White Fronted Goose Snow Goose Ross's Goose Canada Goose Tundra Swan Wood Duck Gadwall American Wigeon American Black Duck Mallard Northern Shoveler Northern Pintail Green-winged Teal Canvasback Redhead Ring-necked Duck Greater Scaup Lesser Scaup Bufflehead Common Goldeneye Hooded Merganser Ruddy Duck Wild Turkey Common Loon---Kentucky Lake Pied-billed Grebe---Kentucky Lake Horned Grebe---Kentucky Lake American White Pelican Double Crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Northern Harrier---At least 9 seen in one field one night Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk American Kestrel American Coot Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Wilson's Snipe American Woodcock Bonaparte's Gull Ring-billed Gull Herring Gull Rock Pigeon Eurasian Collared Dove Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Loggerhead Shrike Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Horned Lark Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch---Kingston Steam Plant Brown Creeper Carolina Wren Winter Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird Hermit Thrush American Robin Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler---Kingston Steam Plant Palm Warbler---Kingston Steam Plant Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow LeConte's Sparrow Fox Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Rusty Blackbird---Including one partially albino Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Very great weekend of birding!! Also, thanks to Anthony for pointing out the Tundra Swans. Enjoyed birding with you! Jacob Job ETSU Johnson City, TN --------------------------------- Yahoo! Mail Bring photos to life! New PhotoMail makes sharing a breeze. =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________