About a week ago, as I stepped out of my front door, I immediately heard the distinctive "pit-i-tuck" of a Summer Tanager; After a few seconds of initial excitement, I found a Mockingbird to be the culprit behind the very convincing deception. It's pretty amazing that after presumably not hearing one for half a year or so, the Mocker still sounded exactly like the real thing!Mike SmithGallatin, TN--- On Mon 03/29, Charlie < cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx > wrote:From: Charlie [mailto: cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx]To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, butternuts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: Mon, 29 Mar 2004 18:03:38 -0800 (PST)Subject: [TN-Bird] White-eyed Vireo - NOT!Hi folks,twice in the last few days I've heard Northern Mockingbirds doingpretty good impressions of White-eyed Vireos. I've not yet seen orheard the mockee. Makes me wonder - do the mockers simply rememberlast year's reportoire?Today I saw 2 NORTHERN ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS on my way to work, inTownsend, east Blount County. My first of year.The Lincoln's Sparrow is still gracing our south Blount County home,and we were finaly able to share it with friends this evening.While looking for aquatic macroinvertebrates at Tremont, one of thekids (a 5th grader from Kansas) found a casting of a rather largedragonfly larva. I'm guessing there must be a Common Whitetail outthere, which neither I nor any of my coworkers has yet spied. Orelse a bird spied it first...Tracey and I saw an adult male Green Frog at the Maryville Greenwayyesterday.Charlie =====**************************************************Charlie Muise, Naturalist nearGreat Smoky Mountains National Park"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey**************************************************__________________________________Do you Yahoo!?Yahoo! Finance Tax Center - File online. File on time.http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages w ithfirst and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation.---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 expressedby the members of this discussion group.Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TNwallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Societyweb site at http://www.tnbirds.org* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *======================================================== _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================