I took advantage of the perfect Memorial Day weather to spend about an hour and a half at Shelby Forest State Park (Shelby County) today. When I could manage to avoid the loud radios and other noise of holiday picnickers, I observed the following: great blue heron - 3 wood duck - 3 Canada goose - 4 red-tailed hawk - 1 Mississippi kite - 2 black vulture - 1 yellow-billed cuckoo - 6 ruby-throated hummingbird - 3 chimney swift - 5 downy woodpecker - 1 hairy woodpecker - 1 red-bellied woodpecker - 1 red-headed woodpecker - 4 Acadian flycatcher - 5 great crested flycatcher - 2 e wood-pewee - 2 barn swallow - 18 crow - 3 fish crow - 1 Carolina chickadee - 1 tufted titmouse - 14 white-breasted nuthatch - 1 Carolina wren - 6 blue-gray gnatcatcher - 20 e bluebird - 4 red-eyed vireo - 1 white-eyed vireo - 6 parula - 2 redstart - 3 Kentucky warbler - 2 prothonotary warbler - 1 yellowthroat - 4 scarlet tanager - 2 summer tanager - 5 indigo bunting - 24 cardinal - 1 brown-headed cowbird - 16 grackle - 18 Baltimore oriole - 1 goldfinch - 2 Van Harris Millington, 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================