Saturday morning Dec. 4, six Chattanooga TOS members + 6 high school and middle school students from Lookout Valley School birded The Honors Course from 10:15 - 12:30. The birding was cut short due to some rain. A total of 31 species were seen. The students included: Cole Brewer, Sam Hartley, Ben Lowrance, Jessica Lorance, Tony Sanchez and Seth Dunzweiler. Chattanooga TOS birders included: Bill Bass, Lois Bean, Katherine Boyles, Danny Gaddy, Starr Klein, David Stone. Later in the day Danny Gaddy and the students met Doug Geren at the Hiwassee refuse where they saw 2 Whooping Cranes as well as Sandhill Cranes. David Stone The Honors Course Ooltewah, Tn. Hamilton Co. Birds seen at The Honors Course included: Great Blue Herron Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Morning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown-headed Nuthatch Carolina Wren Ruby-crowed Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Pine Warbler Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Purple Finch House Finch American Goldfinch =================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 _____________________________________________________________