A Foray (i.e., a survey of breeding birds) to White County, Tennessee, will be conducted 25-28 May 2007, repeating a similar event that took place a quarter century earlier--28-31 May 1982--in White County, which is located about 20 miles south of Cookeville. Birders from around Tennessee are welcome to join Upper Cumberland Region birders for this event. The data from this year's foray will be compared to the data that derived from the earlier foray. Seldom has there been an opportunity to make such a comparison of county-wide breeding bird populations separated by two and a half decades of time, so the results obtained this year should aid greatly in efforts to understand the changing status of many bird species in Middle Tennessee. Some information relating to the White County Foray may be viewed at this page of my website: http://iweb.tntech.edu/sstedman/WhiteCountyForays.htm If you have an interest in joining those who are participating in this event, contact me or Doug Downs (douglas_downs@xxxxxxxxxxx), and we will set you up with an area to survey over the Memorial Day week-end. Good bird counting, Steve Stedman Cookeville, 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 _____________________________________________________________