Hi folks, Tracey, Allan and I hit a few spots between Maryville and Chattanooga the last 2 days. Sept 4, 2004: Route 411 in Blount County, south of Maryville: 2 Osprey Common Green Darner (dragonfly) Route 411 in Monroe County, towards Chota: Adult Bald Eagle 3 Osprey Chota Wildlife Management Area/Tenasi Monuments Monroe County 13 Double-crested Cormorants many Ruby-throated Hummingbirds 1 Trails Flycatcher (Willow or Alder: I think the former) hundreds of Swallows. All I could make out were Tree and Northern Rough-winged dragonflies: 12-spotted Skimmer, Ruby (?) Meadowhawk, Carolina Saddlebags, Black Saddlebags (both common, the former more so), Common Green Darner (the C-150 of the insect world, I can imagine it landing and little army tanks driving out of the back of it's thorax). butterflies: Monarchs, Eastern-tailed Blue, Cloudless Sulphur, Red-spotted Purple other: a corn snake. Surprisingly, this one bit me when I picked it up. In my experience these are most mellow. 1 box turtle Standifer Gap Marsh, Hamilton County: one Virginia Rail, 3+ Green Herons, 6 Wood Ducks, 1 Swamp Sparrow, 1 Gray Catbird. One Red-shouldered Hawk was escorted from the area by a Ruby-throated Hummingbird which chased it at least 100 meters! Dragons: Common Green Darner, E. Pondhawk, Black Saddlebags, Halloween Penant, Slaty Skimmer, Blue Dasher (many mating), 12-Spotted Skimmer, Eastern Amberwing. Other: monarchs, 4.5 foot Black Rat Snake, many sun turtles, Pearly Crescent butterfly, Green Frogs. Brainerd Levee, Hamilton County: No shorebirds at all! Only waders were 1 Great Egret and 2 Great Blue Herons. A female Blue Grosbeak put on a good show of flycatching. Dragons: Simply amazing. Best I've seen in my short time looking at these guys. Many hundreds putting on a good show. Made up entirely for a very disappointing bird day: Cinnamon Shadowdragon (my first!), 100's of Eastern Amberwings, many 12-Spotted Skimmers, Common Green Darners, The only Common Whitetails of the day, Eastern Pondhawks, Halloween Pennant, Black Saddlebags, and at least 3 species I could not ID, including one Clubtail with just a bit of yellow on the club. Today, Sept 6: Chattanooga, Hamilton County while hanging with a friend at the river park, just east of the foot bridge over the Tennessee River, we saw an adult Red-headed Woodpecker. Hiwassee Wildlife Refuge, Meigs County Only one shorebird. A single Killdeer. Thanks a lot for nothing, TVA. Charlie ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist near Great Smoky Mountains National Park "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of cancer." -Edward Abbey ************************************************** __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail =================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 * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================