Yesterday afternoon, August 18, I turned on my rain tower sprinkler, primarily to rescue my dying lawn and drought-weary shrubs. In one-half hour from about 2:30 to 3:00 p.m. I observed the following songbirds coming to one ten foot shrub outside my kitchen window to bath in the leaves. This is the biggest bird-bathing revel I have ever witnessed in my yard. Last week I saw a female Cerulean at my ground level recirculating bird bath. A middle Tennessee birding counterpart to Boneroo perhaps? 1 Prairie Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Chesnut-sided Warbler 1 Black and White Warbler 1 Cerulean Warbler (male in breeding plumage) 1 Red-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo I Scarlet Tanager (Female) 3 Cardinals 1 Towhee (immature) Jim Peters 735 University Avenue Sewanee TN 37383 =================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 _____________________________________________________________