Area and Tennessee Birders, Saturday, February 10, 2007 Today - Larry McDaniel, Jeremy Stout, Don Holt, and myself birded select areas of Washington County and Sulivan County. At most water locations there were Mallards which are not included in the listing below. Washington County: Pond off Hwy 75 (1.4 miles from 11E) [James Brooks and company were at our morning meeting place meeting to go to Hiwassee Refuge. They followed us over to this location). Greater-white Fronted Goose 1 Snow Geese 3 (2 Blue Morph, 1 [immature] White Morph Canada Geese ++ Smithdale Blvd Eurasion-collared Dove 1 Keebler Road Horned Larks (flock flying) Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawks 2 (on drive to Keebler Road) Kestrel Stockton Road Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Bush Hog Pond (on the newly names Precision Blvd) Green-winged Teal 4+ Blue-winged Teal 1 Wilson's Snipe 2 Ruddy Duck 1 After lunch Larry, Don, and myself travelled to Kingsport. Sullivan County: Netherland Inn Drive (at Riverfront Restraurant) On River(upstream): Northen Pintail 3 On River (downstream) Lesser Scaup 5 Great Blue Heron 2 On near bank right side of restraurant: Spotted Sandpipier 1 After I got back to my car I stopped over at Winged-Deer Park and found the Ross' Goose very close and had a great look. It was on the bank at the end of the paved trail leading from the Winged-Deer Park Festival Parking with Canada Geese. I was about ~300 feet away at one point. This goose made me have a 4 goose day. Not bad for NE Tennessee on one day. Misses: Sandhill Cranes - Picken's Bridge/Crouch Rd (checked at 12:30 & 3:30) Peregrine Falcon - Keebler Rd (checked at 9:30 & 10:30) -- Rob Biller Elizabethton, 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 _____________________________________________________________