Spent another delightful afternoon trudging around Kingston Steam Plant in Roane County, Tenn. Sat., 1/12/08, from 1:20 to 4:50 pm A beautiful adult RED SHOULDERED HAWK posed cooperatively in a tree close by for 5 minutes or more, sometimes looking right at me and deciding that I was harmless. Seven sleepy COMMON GOLDENEYES drifted down the river occasionally raising their heads. Sixteen huge black birds flew low overhead toward the trees across Swan Pond Road (DOUBLE CRESTED CORMORANTS but what a sight!). Later spotted 6 in the river on the back side of the ponds. And those comical, jaunty looking HOODED MERGANSERS kept popping up just about everywhere; they're skittish and keep moving around making it devilishly had to count them, so I just counted the largest concentration on the large pond (where there had been just 29 an hour or so earlier). This is what I counted: Canada Goose 19Gadwall 1 maleMallard 6Green-winged Teal 1 maleBufflehead 1 female ( soccer field pond)Common Goldeneye 7 (2 M, 5 F)Hooded Merganser 83Double-crested Cormorant 16Great Blue Heron 5Red-shouldered Hawk 1American Kestrel 1American Coot 2Killdeer 2Ring-billed Gull ~70Belted Kingfisher 2Northern Flicker 2Blue Jay 3American Crow 5Carolina Chickadee 1Tufted Titmouse 6Eastern Bluebird 15American Robin 4Northern Mockingbird 1Song Sparrow 16American Goldfinch 3 Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, Tennessee Carole: Your post body was copied and pasted into the first TESTING message with a "return" put between the number and the next species. This would also be the same as the last character of each species line. It turned out correct. You do find a single space between two lines because I sent that as part of the test. In this post, I simply copied the text from you post to this message without adding the returns at the end of the line. If it looked like the one you had trouble with it is the lack of a "return". Let's see what happens. Let's go birding...... Wallace Coffey Moderator TN-Birds Net Tennessee Ornithological Society Bristol, TN =================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 _____________________________________________________________