Tennessee day 2

Notice the writing in the Cherokee language.

This cemetery is in a town called Brainerd that got gobbled up by the expansion of Chattanooga.  Now the cemetery is surrounded by asphalt.  It is in the middle of a gigantic parking lot for the shopping center and office complex.

Yellow-bellied Sapsucker

They are annoyingly uncooperative.  This is as close as I could get.  I chased her in circles around the cemetery.

Gravestone of Chief John Ross' grandmother.

This is what the Brainerd Cemetery looks like from all sides.

Tuesday afternoon

Chester Frost State Park

Marty Paige picked me up after class, and took me to Chester Frost State Park, where I got 2 new life birds: Red-headed Woodpecker, and Eastern Towhee.  Other birds seen here:

Great Blue Herons

Cooper's Hawk

Pied-billed Grebes

Buffleheads

Mallards

Ring-necked Ducks

Canada Geese

Ring-billed Gulls

Belted Kingfisher

Red-bellied Woodpeckers

Downy Woodpecker

Tufted Titmouses

Northern Mockingbirds

Northern Cardinals

Eastern Bluebirds

Cedar Waxwings

PineWarbler

Common Grackles

Blue Jays

American Crows

Red-winged Blackbirds

White-throated Sparrows

White-breasted Nuthatch

Carolina Chickadees

Carolina Wrens

House Finches