Today has been an up and down bird day. At our house I just witnessed something I can't ever recall...a male Downy Woodpecker drinking from my hummingbird feeder!! Perched and drinking away for near a minute. We also had the latest ever White-crowned Sparrow for our yard today. There have been cool shorebird sightings at Old Hickory Lake in Nashville and at the Duck River TWR site in New Johnsonville. Sadly there was also a tragic death of an adult female Eagle in Norfolk, Virginia today. She was struck and killed this morning by a US Airways Jet. She and her mate were hunting and the Jet struck and killed her as it came in for a landing. The male is ok it just missed him. The pair had been together for 9 years and currently have 3 eaglets at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens...lots of folks watching and good people deciding what's best for them. You can read their story at www.wvec.com Hope you've all had a good day at our places. Till next time, Good birding... <") ( \ / |` Cyndi Routledge "When one tugs at a single thing in Nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world." ~John Muir =================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 _____________________________________________________________