Happy New Year! to all on my Avian Pursuits Nature Tours email list. In talking to some of the people on this list, there is interest in a trip to southwestern...
Hello butternuts members, The trip announcement that was sent to this yahoo group list was not intended to have been sent there by me. In fact, I checked my...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 4, 2008 7:41 pm
We are undergoing a project to collect as much data and as many photos of nature in Steele Creek Park as we can. We will be compiling the information into a...
Hey folks, I just read this informative discussion of coyotes/wolves on the tnbirds listserve and thought I should share it with the group. Don Holt Johnson...
Hello everyone... im a silent member here on Butternuts but... I figured everyone would enjoy this photo the eagle was spotted on Blue Springs road near...
06 January 2008 Just want to "put a bug in your ear". Several members of the Herndon Bird Club and the Butternut Naturalists group have voiced interest in...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 7, 2008 6:07 pm
A small group of people held a Butterfly Club Organizational Meeting on January 6, 2008, at Steele Creek Park in Bristol, TN to discuss ideas on the formation...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 7, 2008 6:11 pm
Sorry there was no subject in the first message. Larry From: larrycmcd@...: ajtcorax@...; allenboynton@...; anna@...;...
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Rewhittemo@...
Jan 7, 2008 7:19 pm
Larry, I would like to be a member. I do not have access to the Butternut Yahoo site because it comes to Whitt and not to me. I do not know his sign-on. ...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 8, 2008 4:42 pm
Dave, Looking back in my butterfly folder I found your message. I sent the following out to numerous people and have been getting a decent number of replies....
Hi Butternutters - The latest issue of the journal Southeastern Naturalist is entirely devoted to papers that update the progress of this monumental effort to...
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Rconnorsphoto@...
Jan 11, 2008 10:09 pm
I saw a copy of the current issue of Southeastern Naturalist in December and indeed the article on GSMNP odonates is very good. Congratulations to the ...
I won't be able to lead this walk/clean up now. I got a new job and will be moving from the area. The TN Native Plant Society is planning on leading a walk...
This past week I was reviewing the "North American Butterfly Association Checklist & English Names of North American Butterflies", First edition (1995). Not...
To my nature-loving friends, For the past 2 years the birdfeeder at the elementary school where I teach has been visited by this spectacular white Blue Jay. It...
Happy New Year Kris! Just a quick note to thank you for sharing your photos of the leucistic Blue Jay. You are right... it is spectacular! Have a great 2008! ...
Hi Larry, I knew the lack of the blue pigment had a special name, but I couldn't remember what it was! Thanks for reminding me. I hope to get a better photo...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 17, 2008 6:42 pm
The date for the Butterfly Seminar at Steele Creek Park has been changed to May 24, 2008. More details will be posted later. Larry McDaniel From:...
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Larry McDaniel
larrycmcd@...
Jan 23, 2008 8:13 pm
I saw a Fox Squirrel this morning along Pickens Bridge Road near Torbett St., a little south of Edgefield. This is the first I've seen in that area. Larry...
Hello! I wanted to share an interesting phenomenon that I saw last summer. While looking for spiders, anoles, fritillary caterpillars, and other critters on my...
Kris, Could this be similar in purpose to what the anthers do in Kalmia? It is my understanding that they are in their little "pockets" on the petals until an...
Folks, The warm weather stirred at least one butterfly up. Yesterday I saw an American Snout in the western part of Great Smoky Mountains NP. Wood Frogs were...
Could tonight be the night ? It's looking very good! We have had a nice rain event today in Northeast Tennessee and surrounding regions. My temperature here...
I added a photo in the folder "2006 misc" named ID Help. I did not take the photo but am trying to help the person identify it and felt this offered the best...
Hey Mike, That looks like it might be a moss in the genus Rhodobryum. Don ... From: Mike Poe <mpoe@...> To: butternuts@yahoogroups.com Sent: Sat, 9 Feb...
Hello, I am new to this area and to this group and have a lot to learn about the area's flora and fauna. I am not familiar with holly bushes in general as they...
Hey Katherine, ???? Your?shrub is not actually a true holly in the genus Opaca, but is what is sometimes called a grape-holly in the genus Mahonia.??They often...
Don: A friend who raises queens and manages about 200 hives told me recently that his bees have been actively foraging on some days since January. He had no...
Hi folks, Tracey and I were in Blount County this weekend. There are lots of maples blooming there now. We saw a couple individual trees at Cades Cove and...
