Great day for birding at Dutch Bottoms and Rankin Bottoms in Cocke County this morning with Shirley Price and Rose Lapp. Several lifers for me this trip. 2) caspian terns 15+ Mallards 25+ ring-billed gulls 20+ great Blue Herons 4 green herons 30+ Double-crested cormorants 4 Osprey 30+ Canada geese 10+ short-billed do witches American golden plover Ruddy Turnstone 10+Killdeer Greater yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs 30+ Great Egret 20+ Eastern Kingbird 4 Eastern Phoebe Belted Kingfisher Many more shorebirds, but lighting was not good and the birds were too far away to be sure of ID. I saw and met many birders today! Sara Smith Jefferson County Sent from my iPad=================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@xxxxxxxxxxxxx. _____________________________________________________________ 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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clemson, SC __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________