Walked about 1.25 miles in the morning and early afternoon at a couple places in Royal Blue (now N. Cumberland WMA) at about 2800 feet on Turley Mtn and the breeding birds are back in good numbers already up there! The redstarts were especially vocal! > Location: Royal Blue WMA > Observation date: 4/19/11 > Number of species: 34 > > Turkey Vulture 3 > Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 > Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 > Hairy Woodpecker 2 > Northern Flicker 1 > Pileated Woodpecker 2 > Eastern Phoebe 1 > Yellow-throated Vireo 2 > Blue-headed Vireo 3 > Red-eyed Vireo 3 > Blue Jay 2 > Northern Rough-winged Swallow 1 > Carolina Chickadee X > Tufted Titmouse X > White-breasted Nuthatch 1 > Carolina Wren 1 > Wood Thrush 1 > Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 > Black-throated Green Warbler 5 > Blackburnian Warbler 8 > Cerulean Warbler 19 (including 2 females) > Black-and-white Warbler 5 > American Redstart 17 > Worm-eating Warbler 1 > Ovenbird 5 > Kentucky Warbler 1 > Hooded Warbler 13 > Eastern Towhee 4 > Scarlet Tanager 6 > Northern Cardinal 4 > Rose-breasted Grosbeak 2 > Brown-headed Cowbird 5 > American Goldfinch 4 Than Boves Knoxville, 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 _____________________________________________________________