Ten Islands area, Cocke & Jefferson counties, 4/3/11, 6-8 PM, by canoe Douglas Lake elevation: 973.8 ft. We decided the weather was too nice on Sunday for us to be catching up on our chores, so we went to the lake for a sunset cruise. Notable (all but the coots & some GBH were seen on the Cocke county side of the lake): Am. widgeon (4) Blue-winged teal (21) Greater scaup (2) Lesser scaup (8) Northern shoveler (9) Am. coot (62 ) Double-crested cormorant (75) Great Blue Heron (17) Bald eagle (1juv.) Osprey (7, including the pair who don't mind the traffic on Walters Bridge) Greater yellowlegs Ring-billed gull (78) Bonaparte's gull (8) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio 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 -------------------------------- 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 _____________________________________________________________