Walked around Clark Center Park in Oak Ridge (Anderson County) from 2 to 3:40 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A little cold but a beautiful day. Highlights were 4 Hermit Thrushes and 3 Brown Creepers (2 on the same tree). All the Hermit Thrushes I'd previously seen had either been skulking in the underbrush or calling from high in a tree. Yesterday was the first I'd seen them hopping around on the ground like sparrows--all except the first (skulking). Two were foraging on the ground in the area between the water and the volleyball court (along with multitudes of juncoes) and the last dropped down from the roof of the maintenance building next to the parking lot as I was returning to my car. The birds were being pretty quiet but I've noticed that they will be quiet in cold weather. Here's my count: Canada Goose 2 Pied-billed Grebe 2 (in the water at the entrance just off Pumphouse Road) Great Blue Heron 2 Black Vulture 3 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Ring-billed Gull 25 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Northern Flicker 3 American Crow 1 Tufted Titmouse 3 Brown Creeper 3 Eastern Bluebird 15+ Hermit Thrush 4 Northern Mockingbird 1 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 70+ Northern Cardinal 3 Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN _________________________________________________________________ Invite your Hotmail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces http://clk.atdmt.com/MSN/go/msnnkwsp0070000001msn/direct/01/?href=http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us =================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 _____________________________________________________________