Yesterday while biking the unopened section of the Vietnam Veterans Parkway extension between Gallatin and Hendersonville (Sumner county), I stopped to listen to a bird that wound up being a Meadowlark, but immediately noticed a Loggerhead Shrike in the lower part of a tree. About 30 seconds later another flew out, so maybe they are nesting in this area. Hopefully they won't become victims of car impact once they open this section of 70 mph roadway. They were at the end of a wooded fencerow 150 feet south of the parkway, about 2 miles east of closed Station Camp Creek Road onramp, and .5 mile west of closed Harris Lane off ramp. If anyone wants to count birds at the Drakes Creek rookery on the island off Sanders Ferry Road, I have a boat. I went by there Sunday morning while fishing and saw many Double-Crested Cormorants, Great Blue Herons, Black-Crowned Night Herons, and several Great Egrets. Ken Oeser Hendersonville, TN ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =================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 _____________________________________________________________