Hi folks, Yesterday I led a group of folks to some wetlands areas in Cades Cove (Blount County, Great Smoky Mountains National Park). It wasn't a birding trip, but, well, I couldn't really resist... On top of the damselfly larvae, frogs and salamanders, we saw the following birds: Canada Geese Wood Ducks Mallard Turkey Vulture Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Wild Turkey SPOTTED SANDPIPER Solitary Sandpiper - at least a dozen at the sewage lagoons Mourning Dove Chimney Swift Belted Kingfisher Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker EASTERN WOOD-PEWEE Eastern Phoebe Tree Swallow Barn Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow (at least 100 at the lagoons) BANK SWALLOW Twice I saw an individual, presumably the same one. Mixed in with the rough-wingeds. The bar across the neck was distinct. First time I've seen this species in Blount County. Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper - singing Carolina Wren GRAY CATBIRD American Robin Eastern Bluebird Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Pipit - I've had them at the lagoons EVERY time I've been there this year, probably about 10 trips. European Starling Black-and-white Warbler Northern Parula Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak American Goldfinch Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Today at Tremont I found my first Acadian Flycatcher of the year. This puts my Blount County list for 2005 at 148. Charlie ******************************************************************* Charlie Muise, Naturalist in Great Smoky Mountains National Park "To the dull mind all nature is leaden. To the illuminated mind the whole world sparkles with light." - Ralph Waldo Emerson __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================