Hi folks, Yesterday (May 23) I did a bit of morning birding. I started out right down the road from my house at a 5 of 6 year-old clearcut. There were numerous INDIGO BUNTINGS and a healthy population of FIELD SPARROWS as well as several YELLOW-BREASTED CHATS, WHITE-EYED VIREOS and a couple of YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOOS. Moving on to Kyker Bottoms, I found more of the same (I saw at least 6 cuckoos, including one nest and one possible nest, and heard at least double that - easily a personal record for that species for me.) Sadly the martin "super gourds" there had only starlings. I found 4 different singing WILLOW FLYCATCHERS ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist near Great Smoky Mountains National Park "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey ************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/ =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================