Cades Cove, GSMNP Blount County 11 October 2009 Martha Rudolph and I birded in Cades Cove, mainly around the Sparks Lane area. The Cove was very crowded. The drive time for the Loop was 2-3 hours. Here's the list: Wood Duck 2 (sewage ponds) Mallard 1 (sewage ponds) BLUE-WINGED TEAL 3 (sewage ponds) Wild Turkey 26 PIED-BILLED GREBE 1 (sewage ponds) Great Blue Heron 1 Black Vulture 1 Turkey Vulture 5 NORTHERN HARRIER 2 (male and female - Hyatt lane) Red-shouldered Hawk 1 American Kestrel 2 Mourning Dove 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER 1 (FOS) Downy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 10 (a "flock") Pileated Woodpecker 2 Eastern Phoebe 5 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 36 (one flock of 30) American Crow 18 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 6 Swainson's Thrush 1 Wood Thrush 1 Gray Catbird 5 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling 7 Palm Warbler 19 (everywhere) Common Yellowthroat 2 Eastern Towhee 4 Song Sparrow 2 SWAMP SPARROW 1 (FOS) Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Eastern Meadowlark 14 American Goldfinch 6 -Susan Hoyle Knoxville, 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/ 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 _____________________________________________________________