From: Robert Loveday I made a 15 minute stop @ the Bear Creek Rd. marsh below the Hwy 58 bridge before punching the clock this morning: Red-headed woodpeckers were seen on both sides of the access gravel road that splits the marsh. A yellow-throated warbler & a brown headed nuthatch were seen within a foot of each other working a pine tree. An osprey was perched nearby on a dead pine surveying the algae covered water, as were a belted kingfisher & 2 eastern kingbirds. Phoebes were everywhere (sadly so were starlings). Also seen/ heard: Am goldfinch, E. bluebirds, White-eyed vireos, Common yellowthroat, Blue-gray gnatcatchers, Red tail hawk, Pileated/ Red bellied/ Downy woodpeckers. Absent were the easily seen 2 great egrets & 2 black-crowned night herons that spent most of the summer at the marsh (one visit this summer, I saw a great egret, great blue heron, green heron, & a deer all in one binoc view? a real Kodak moment). FYI, a security guard met me at the Bear Creek marsh gate a few weeks ago. No problem really, we had a nice conversation. A bomb threat on the Oak Ridge Reservation caused them to more closely watch any parked cars in the area. Correction to my post Monday re: Rankin WMA- I stated that some smaller Least Terns were likely in with 3 Black Terns seen. Well, revisiting the bird books it seems the Black Tern is 10? lg.when I thought it was 14?. So the assumed 9.75? lg. ?smaller? Least Terns were more likely Black Terns. I guess I have to eat ?crow? on that one (not the first time, certainly not the last). To everything tern, tern, tern, There is a season tern, tern, tern? (has anyone thought of that one yet Dean or David ?) __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? HotJobs - Search Thousands of New Jobs http://www.hotjobs.com =================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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================