Went birding today at the marsh from 8-1030 and got a few good species of birds. The list is as follows: American Bittern Great Blue Heron Mallard Northern Shoveler Gadwall Sharp-shinned Hawk Red-shouldered Hawk Red-tailed Hawk American Kestrel Sora American Coot Mourning Dove Belted Kingfisher Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Marsh Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler Northern Cardinal Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark American Goldfinch Some other interesting things that happened were me teaching a young White-throated Sparrow to sing. Seems unlikely I know, but I do a really good imitation and this one bird would imitate me during or right after I was doing the song. It started off with only a few notes in the beginning, but after 10 mins or so, he was doing the whole song with me. Also, while I was doing this, I had 2 White-tail deer walk up on me to about 20 feet or so before I turned and scared them. I stalked them back to where they ran and got to about 20 feet again and then one of the does blew and they both took off. Right after that, I noticed a lot of the birds go quiet and the American Robins all fly away and I thought to myself, just wait and there should be a hawk that flys by in a minute. Sure enough, a Sharp-shinned Hawk flew over and landed almost on top of me. Very productive morning! Jacob Job Johnson City, TN ETSU Ooltewah, TN __________________________________________________ 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. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________