Snowy egret and little blues still present on 9/8. Great Egret count now up to 15. Shrinking pond full of fish and the word is out! Assorted shore birds but bring a scope. Hugh Barger Hamilton County On Fri, Sep 5, 2014 at 6:03 PM, Hugh Barger <hughbarger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > This afternoon about 1 PM in Hamilton County at Brainerd levee I observed > a Snowy Egret,a first for me at this location also: > 7 Great Egrets > 2 Immature little blue herons > 2 green herons > solitary sandpiper > least sandpiper > 4 Great Blue herons > pied bill grebe > > After the thunderstorm in Ooltewah later in the day I had my first > backyard warblers for fall, a magnolia and a chesnut-sided plus the peak in > numbers of ruby-throated hummers for the years; at least 10 orbiting the > feeders. > > Hugh Barger > Ooltewah > Hamilton County >