A rainy night gave way to a foggy morning, but the weather held long enough for the Memphis TOS chapter's field trip to Shelby Forest state park (Shelby Cty). Observers were Kay Lait, Virginia Reynolds, Lillian Durand, Carolyn Bullock, Van Harris, Rob Peeples and Dick Preston. OBSERVED: great blue heron - 3 great egret - 2 Mississippi kite - 6 mourning dove - 5 yellow-billed cuckoo - 12 barred owl - 1 chimney swift - 5 ruby-throated hummingbird - 5 red-headed woodpecker - 3 red-bellied woodpecker - 10 downy woodpecker - 10 hairy woodpecker - 1 pileated woodpecker - 6 olive-sided flycatcher - 1 e wood-pewee - 12 Acadian flycatcher - 15 great crested flycatcher - 20 e kingbird - 2 purple martin - 2 barn swallow - 15 Carolina chickadee - 8 tufted titmouse - 20 white-breasted nuthatch - 4 Carolina wren - 24 blue-gray gnatcatcher - 30 e bluebird - 6 gray-cheeked thrush - 1 Swainson thrush - 4 wood thrush - 6 cedar waxwing - 20 starling - 20 white-eyed vireo - 12 yellow-throated vireo - 2 red-eyed vireo - 15 Tennessee warbler - 4 parula - 20 chestnut-sided warbler - 1 magnolia warbler - 5 yellow-rumped warbler - 1 black-throated green warbler - 1 blackburnian warbler - 1 blackpoll warbler - 4 cerulean warbler - 3 redstart - 25 prothonotary warbler - 5 Louisiana waterthrush - 3 Kentucky warbler - 5 yellowthroat - 1 hooded warbler - 4 summer tanager - 12 scarlet tanager - 2 cardinal - 15 indigo bunting - 35 chipping sparrow - 5 red-winged blackbird - 6 grackle - 25 brown-headed cowbird - 45 orchard oriole - 2 Baltimore oriole - 3 goldfinch - 1 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 =========================================================