21 July 2007 Ten Islands section of upper Douglas Lake, Cocke Co side. Just downstream from Rankin Bottoms, which are high & dry. After spending the day birding with Don Miller in Greene Co., Cathey Love, Virginia Fairchild, and I met Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens at the Leadvale boat ramp for a motorized canoe trip in the late afternoon. Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Lesser Yellowlegs - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 4 Least Sandpiper - 50 Pectoral Sandpiper - 47 Killdeer - 150+ Great Egret - 110+ Black-cr. Night-Heron - 10+ plus (numbers not tallied): Great Blue Herons Green Herons Dbl-cr Cormorants Wood Ducks Canada Geese & Mallards numerous swallows Many thanks to Michael & Leslie for a pleasant outing. Rick Knight Johnson City, 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 _____________________________________________________________