Knox County 11:45am Sat. 2/22/03 Sandhill cranes flew over the Karns community today, just west of the intersection of Henderson Rd and W Emory Rd. After approaching from the east, they circled around for about 5 minutes as if wanting to set down. This area has a considerable amount of pasture, but it may a bit more broken up with trees and fence rows than they prefer. One bird kept straying from the group and finally another one peeled off to join it. I lost track of them, but I believe these two may have set down somewhere close to here. I'm quite sure that I had a good count of twenty birds initially, but only eighteen flew off together. These headed off in a northwesterly direction - toward Melton Hill Lake (should have put them very near the Bull Run Steam Plant in Anderson County only minutes later). The birds were very vocal and appeared to be no more than 100 feet high when circling. W. Kelly Roy Knoxville TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- 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. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================