http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/ Butternut Naturalists Sat, 07 Nov 2009 03:12:32 GMT klight10@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2292 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2292 I came across something in my yard today that was so weird I had to share it! (No comments about it happening in Oak Ridge!) As I was weeding my garden a Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:27:39 GMT Chris O'Bryan http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2291 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2291 Larry, Scarlet Kingsnake is a possibility for that locality, although I would put most of my money on it being an Eastern Milksnake (common in that area). If Mon, 02 Nov 2009 04:26:14 GMT Wallace Coffey http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2290 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2290 If it is a king snake it is, at best, a questionable and/or problematic record of what you called an escaped or released pet. I serious doubt if there has Sun, 01 Nov 2009 17:48:26 GMT Larry McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2289 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2289 On Friday, 11/30, someone stopped by the Nature Center at Steele Creek Park with a cell phone snapshot of a Scarlet King Snake. He took me to it. It was dead Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:10:52 GMT Larry McDaniel http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2288 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2288 I got these pictures of the black morph Eastern Gray Squirrel and a Fox Squirrel at Steele Creek Park. The black is usually found near shelter D and the fox Thu, 29 Oct 2009 14:58:51 GMT Harold Howell http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2287 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2287 Hi Charlie and Tracey! It is good to know you all are still alive and kicking. For point and shoot cameras, I would recommend the Canon S series. Harriet has Thu, 29 Oct 2009 11:47:05 GMT Charlie http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2286 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2286 Hi Butternuts, Tracey and I are in the market for a new camera, and wonder if any of you would be so nice as to give us recommendations.  Please feel free to Thu, 29 Oct 2009 02:03:33 GMT klight10@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2285 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2285 Hi Don, If it was a "racer", it sure moved slowly! :) It completely ignored us even when I was just a couple of feet away when it was climbing in a small pine Thu, 29 Oct 2009 01:40:07 GMT dnldhlt@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2284 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2284 Hey Kris, great observations, keep 'em coming. Now, I'm not a real herpetologist, but I play one on the internet. ;-) From your story, I was expecting a Tue, 27 Oct 2009 18:15:24 GMT klight10@... http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2283 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2283 Hello Butternuts! My husband, Kenny, and I hiked up to the Angel Falls Overlook at Big South Fork on Sunday. We had quite an exciting experience watching a Mon, 26 Oct 2009 01:58:27 GMT Alice Loftin / Don Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2282 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2282 October 25, 2009 Greene County: Joachim Bible Refuge ( JBR ) unit of Lick Creek Bottoms Wildlife Management Area and various other sites Northern Bobwhite (4 Sun, 25 Oct 2009 15:41:30 GMT michael sledjeski http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2281 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2281 Don: I'm wondering about that "J" - is that either side of the north end of Walters Bridge? I'd like to head out to the lake today, but we have company and a Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:45:51 GMT Alice Loftin / Don Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2280 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2280 October 24, 2009 Cocke County (C): Dutch Bottoms Jefferson County (J): Douglas Lake along Highway 25-E, and nearby areas Blue-winged Teal (140 C--a high Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:53:36 GMT Alice Loftin / Don Miller http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2279 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2279 October 23, 2009 Washington County During a short visit to Austin Springs today, I observed the following: Pied-billed Grebe Pectoral Sandpiper (2) Dunlin (2) Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:07:36 GMT Wallace Coffey http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2278 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/butternuts/message/2278 The famous butternut tree, which stood on private land near the entrance to The Nature Conservancy's Quarry Bog in Shady Valley, has been cut down and removed.