Hi folks, I try not to send stuff that could be construed as advertising to lists. We have a weekly email newsletter that I think some of you may interested...
Charlie, I read your messages with interest. I have a question about fire pink, Silene virginica. I live in Pulaski, Virginia - that's along Interstate 81 ...
Hey Charlie, Is there a website where your newsletter is archived so that back issues can be accessed, or where the current issue can be read by those who...
Hi DOn, I'm glad you're interested in the Tremont E-newsletter. You know, I *should* know the answer to your question... but I don't. I'm cc'ing the folks at...
Hi Stan, I wish I could help you, but I am not familiar with any such research. I, too, have noticed the differing degrees of "pinking" or notching in the...
Wed. 07 APR 2004 Weavers Bend, Cocke Co., TN D. Holt Thought I would look for butterflies before it rained. Some of the forest at Weavers Bend has undergone a...
Yesterday evening a small group from TVA Natural Heritage set out on a frog logging adventure. We surveyed for frogs near Stinking Creek and near the Oneida...
While searching for four-toed salamanders near Titus Creek, Royal Blue Wildlife Management Area, Campbell County, I located an Eastern Worm Snake (Carphophis...
Hi folks, Yesterday while leading a group of middle school kids from Florida through the snow (yes, it's as exciting as it sounds) I saw Showy Orchis for the...
On April16, 2004, Biologist Jenny Fiedler and I were working on Braden Mountain, Campbell County, Tennessee. Above us in the trees was a Cerulean Warbler...
This morning I observed a Hummingbird Moth working a blueberry bush in my yard. However this one was different from the ones I am accustomed to seeing. The...
On Sunday evening 4/18/04 I observed at very reddish bat at Springbrook Park, along the creek near the stone arch bridge (directly below the gymnasium) just...
Hey Allan, Great find on that Early Hairstreak. Would you believe, I just came in from Austin Springs in Johnson City where I just found an Early Hairstreak, ...
Hey Mike, try this site, it sounds like a Nessus Sphinx, Amphion floridensis, to me. http://www.npwrc.usgs.gov/resource/distr/lepid/moths/usa/1021.htm Don Holt...
Hey Kathy Bivens, your description sounds right on for Red Bat to me. I have seen them around my farm in Carter Co. near Elizabethton TN in the wintertime on...
Fellow Naturalists, Today (4/19) I (Chris O'Bryan) observed one (1) Red Fox in a cow field on McQueen Road, off of Winchester Road, Crandull, Shady Valley,...
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Don - I enjoy your posts to Tn-Bird and Butternuts. I had an email from a professional naturalist in Knox County (off-line) that confirmed it was Eastern Red...
Another interesting note on the red bat: My friend Nathan was doing some prescribed burning in GA when a flock (is that correct) of bats came up from the leaf...
Please record my finding of the early hairstreak. I've always wanted to do a nature sit up in a tree for at least an hour. Julia Butterfly Hill sat in a tree...
Mike, There is a group of moths in the family Sphingidae that are collectively called Sphinx moths, which often hoover and look like hummingbirds, and are thus...
Don, Are cloudless Sulphurs supposed to be unusual? I saw about a dozen large yellow butterflies, which I believe to have been this species, on my trip up...
Hey Kathy, I agree with Don. I've seen them a couple times along the Maryville Greenway, at the Montvale Station Road end. They are also found within Great...
Allan: You would love it high in a treetop. There was once two or three of us that would sometimes spend two hours or more together at a sit more than 100 ...
Allan, I wish I could remember the name of it right now, but there is a state park in Florida that has a canopy board walk. I was there about 3, maybe 4 years...
oh,oh,oh, Myakka State Park. Within an hour of Tampa. Charlie ===== ************************************************** Charlie Muise, Naturalist near Great...
Greetings, Here's a late message...sorry about the delay but........ Last Saturday, Audrey Hoff and I visited the Blue Heron area of Big South Fork National...
I helped lead a wildflower walk at Warriors Path State Park Saturday and rediscovered the Wisters Coralroot that I first saw there about five years ago. Its...
Allan, That is very interesting. I'd always held to the belief that bats can't take flight from the ground - that they need to drop off a surface, and "glide...
I've taken pride in knowing you, Wallace Coffey. I think that you are one of the great naturalists of our region, and that you will always be remembered as...