My wife and I hiked north from Carver's Gap on Thursday for a few miles. On our way back up to Round Bald, near where the flaming azaleas are still blooming, we heard a Swainson's Thrush sing several times loud and clear. It definitely caught me off guard as I wasn't necessarily expecting to actually hear one, but I did see the post Dean Edwards forwarded from the NC list serve, so I was keeping an ear out for it. Quite a nice ending to a great hike. I did double check my thrush songs and the singer was definitely a Swainson's Thrush and not a Hermit. We were 2.5 miles or so north of Round Bald and had a pair of calling Hermit Thrushes in the thick woods. I never saw the birds (mostly because we didn't stop for long and I didn't carry my binoculars!). Two male Vesper Sparrows were around Round Bald as well. Both perched up nicely on trail markers and sang for us. Good birding, Scott Somershoe State Ornithologist Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency P.O. Box 40747 Nashville, TN 37204 615-781-6653 (o) 615-781-6654 (fax) www.tnwatchablewildlife.org www.pbase.com/shoeman =================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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________