Yesterday I found a banded, road-killed Northern Saw-whet Owl in DeKalb County. I submitted the band number to the Bird Banding Lab via the BBL's online band reporting site. The owl I found yesterday had been banded in Wisconsin Oct. 20, 2004. I plan to donate the specimen, which is in pretty good condition (photo at my website), to the Obed Wild and Scenic River, a National Park Service unit in Wartburg, if they wish to mount it for display; otherwise it will go to a bird collection at a univ. here in TN. Looks like the coming winter might be a good one for saw-whets in Tennessee. I'd recommend adding a NSWO tape to the collection of tapes you use for night work during CBCs or doing some work to improve your whistled imitation of this owl's "toot" call; it's pretty easy to imitate. It will be interesting to see if more than the usual (very small) number of saw-whets gets reported on this year's CBCs and if the reports come from areas other than the far eastern end of the state. Steve Stedman Cookeville, TN (and the surrounding Upper Cumberland Region) =================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 _____________________________________________________________