On a rainy day I was surprised by the amount of bird activity. Wild turkeys were spotted at ten locations around the Loop Road. At the Sewage ponds I had FOS Bufflehead and Gadwall. I believe the Gadwall is only the second record in the park. Wood Duck - 3 Gadwall - 3 FOS Bufflehead - 1 FOS Wild Turkey - 65 in ten locations Northern Harrier - 2 brown Cooper's Hawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Mourning Dove - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Northern Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 2 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 American Crow - 27 Common Raven - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 2 Carolina Wren - 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1 FOS Eastern Bluebird - 9 European Starling - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Palm Warbler - 9 Eastern Towhee - 2 Chipping Sparrow - 43 Field Sparrow - 3 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Song Sparrow - 12 Northern Cardinal - 6 Red-winged Blackbird - 48 Eastern Meadowlark - 46 Brown-headed Cowbird - 36 American Goldfinch - 2 Number of Species: 35 Warren Bielenberg Maryville =================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 _____________________________________________________________