One of the best things about spring and fall is the surprising combinations of birds that one can get, especially after the weather clears following the kind...
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Stan and Mary Ann Ben...
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Apr 3, 2002 2:17 am
Saw 2 Louisiana waterthrushes today, April 2 - my first of the year. Both red and white trillium were in bloom in the upper New River Gorge area of Mercer...
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Don Miller
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Apr 7, 2002 12:15 am
Spring firsts today in Greene County: Green Heron (observed by Jim Holt and Don Miller in lower end of Paint Creek Recreation Area, just north of French Broad...
Sunday, April 07, I finally got out in the field after a full week at work. On the Betty Range cliffs on the Watauga River, Carter Co., I heard and then saw...
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Apr 8, 2002 2:10 am
I had a Black-throated Green Warbler this afternoon along Clark's Creek in southern Washington County. While there, I also found three West Virginia Whites,...
I was on Holston Mtn this past weekend looking for morels( it may be to early but I'm hungry) Didn't find any mushrooms but the flowers were real nice.There is...
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Don Miller
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Apr 10, 2002 12:58 am
After work today, I visited a few birding spots near town and found a lone Spotted Sandpiper at a pond near the Nolichuckey River--the same pond where I got my...
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Don Miller
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Apr 14, 2002 2:04 am
At Wal-Mart Distribution Center (Pottertown Road in Midway community) this evening: American Avocet (6--well advanced toward breeding plumage, with quite a bit...
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Don Miller
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Apr 14, 2002 2:27 am
I forgot to mention that the avocets were in the fourth pond at Wal-Mart Distribution Center--all the way around the building to the right and past the long,...
Thursday morning, April 11, 2002 in Greene Co. on Hwy 351 about 1 mile south of the Intersection with Hwy 107 a Green Heron flew over. Later that afternoon an...
Hey Butternuts, I just finished my second week of work at my new job at the Clyde Austin 4-H Center in Greene Co. Besides the birds I just mentioned in my...
Hey, I stopped after work last Wednesday at the Greenville Dam below Davy Crockett Lake on the Nolichuckey River. I walked along the bluffs below the dam and ...
I stopped at Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton today, April 14, 2002, to look for the Yellow-crowned Night Heron reported by Rick Knight. I...
Hey plant people, I checked out the Carolina Pinks. They are in full bloom, probably at their peak. (Maybe next Saturday afternoon after my walk at Warriors...
There was a huge hatch of caddisflies around the Brush Creek Sewage Treatment Plant Sunday night. I danced around in the road like an idiot trying to catch...
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Don Miller
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Apr 15, 2002 3:00 am
Alice Loftin, Sarah Ledford, and I heard a Chuck-will's-widow this evening from about 8:20 to about 8:40 in Midway community, western Greene County. Sarah, a...
Donald: I'm curious about how you identified your corn snake. Leslie described a brownish/grayish "corn" snake, found near the house, to a herpetologist and...
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Apr 15, 2002 2:09 pm
Don, I think I need to be with Bob on his geology hike, but I'll see. Anne...
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Stan and Mary Ann Ben...
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Apr 16, 2002 1:36 am
Donald, Your Greene County sighting of Wister's coralroot is possibly a county record or the record somehow missed getting verified. I did not come across this...
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Don Miller
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Apr 16, 2002 2:47 am
Alice Loftin and I birded for several hours today in Greene County, Cocke County, and Madison County (NC). Most of our time was spent in the Cherokee National...
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Apr 18, 2002 7:48 pm
Don, Bob & I went out Hyder Hill road to find the Carolina pinks. There are several clumps of them and I took lots of pictures. They ARE hard to get to! ...
Hey Michael, I went with the gist of it, nothing technical. I didn't realize they could be easily confused with Milk Snakes. The only milk snake I've seen...
Hey Stan, The Greene Co., TN Wister's Coralroot station was previously unknown to me. Should I collect a specimen or take a photo for the record? Don Holt...
I found a large patch of Showy orchis today, 30 or more plants growing along Mill Creek on Holston Mtn . I uploaded a photo of one to the Butternuts web site. ...
On Holston Mtn today I found a Yellow Lady Slipper , Putty Root , and Showy Orchis growing side by side. I tried real hard to turn the Indian Cucumber Root...
Friday May 03, 2002, in the parking lot of Comfort Inn in east Elizabethton, TN I heard a Barn Owl call twice, first behind the Inn and then overhead, ...
While listening to the Barn Owl behind my house May 12, I was watching fireflies. Most of them flashed a series of four short flashes while moving more or...
Don, Probably two different species of fireflies. Each one has its own species-specific flash patterns and the females are generally on the ground and not...
