This past weekend TOS held it's annual meeting in the Memphis area and members birded, among other sites, Meeman Shelby State Park, Shelby County TN. Woodland birding is great in magnificent Shelby Forest! and Saturday morning was ideal for songbirds, cool and clear after overnight rain, and the cool temps kept bird activity going all day. Nesting Swainson's and Cerulean Warblers are one of the attractions there. I used to consider Swanison's an elusive bird, but I was able to get on several birds that were singing on territory, at or above shrub level, and had great looks at them. I stayed thru the weekend (Sunday was a wash out) and Monday was another fine morning. Midway thru the park there is a hunter-access gravel road along a stream, it goes thru what's called bottom land hardwood forest. It was anything but "silent spring" on this occasion; it was in fact one of the best experiences I've had in the field in a while. The whole weekend was good in fact, hopefully others will post also. My list follows, it's not the official compilation, but includes 20 warbler species. Richard Connors, Nashville Canada Goose Wood Duck Anhinga 1- *fly-over seen by Rick Knight etc. Great Blue Heron Great Egret Green Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Mississippi Kite Bald Eagle Red-shouldered Hawk Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Barred Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Fish Crow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Veery Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Nashville Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Cape May Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler - 7 Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Swainson's Warbler - 4 Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole **************Need a new ride? Check out the largest site for U.S. used car listings at AOL Autos. (http://autos.aol.com/used?NCID=aolcmp00300000002851) =================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 _____________________________________________________________