David and Cindy Hollie, Dan Jacobson, and I spent a couple of hours scoping the shorebirds at the Brainerd Levee behind Boyd Buchanan School, late afternoon May 18. Here are the highlights: 2 (maybe 3) BAIRD'S SANDPIPER 8 WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER 9 Semipalmated Plover 3 Spotted Sandpiper 8 Semipalmated Sandpiper 36 Least Sandpiper Misc. note: Clyde Blum and I found a OLIVE-SIDED FLYCATCHER in a large dead tree behind the New York Monument on the Cravens plaza at the Cravens House on Lookout Mountain Sunday May 14. The first sighting for the year for Hamilton County. Kevin Calhoon Chattanooga, TN =================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 __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________