Cumberland Mountains

I spent the summer of 2005 on a project studying Cerulean Warblers in Tennessee
(some of the quality of the pictures was lost during scanning)

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A small creek on the way to our Sundquist study site.	The old highway 63, running parallel to the interstate.	One of the many small, winding roads that twist through the hills, tributary to the highway.	Cove Lake State Park, as seen from our daily drive to and from the mountains.
Our backyard. I spent many hours sitting here playing guitar and chatting with our friendly neighbours.	Rhododendron on a trail in Cove Lake.	Rhododendron	A view over a logging cut on our way up Red Oak Mountain (to our study sites)
The last leg of our morning commute, several kilometers of rough road on a two-wheel drive minivan!	One of the many creeks down in our plots	A particularly dense part of the road in	Down in the plot
Our magnificent van, scarred with the wounds of battle after the season.	Danielle at the bottom of a steep slope	Danielle and Kelly lining up the next boundary tree	After flagging and painting a boundary tree for one of the study plots
Tiffany below one of our Cerulean nests, explaining the veg procedure on our first day of the second half of the season	Showy Orchid, common in Royal Blue at the beginning of the season.	A Red Eft, always underfoot near the end of the season	While doing my spot maps one morning, I chanced upon this sleeping fawn and got one half-decent picture before running out of film
Flame Azalea	Shaggy Scarlet Cup	The unique flowers of Albizzia tree, a widespread Asian import along roadsides	Box Turtle
Chicory	A surprise while reaching for a blackberry	Local roads through the hills, smothered in Kudzu, the invasive vine from Asia	I was on my way home from the store (taking the scenic route!) when I stopped to take this picture
OQueener Road, my home for three months	Our "complex"	This was the last day at the house, most everyone else had already left	Cove Lake
Cove Lake	Sasha and I made a couple day road trip into Kentucky to go to Mammoth Cave.	Mammoth Cave was a disappointment after this	From a nearby overlook, we were able to see a small block that was our camp the night before, above the cliff-side.
We camped on the side of the Green River	A wrong turn on the way home from Mammoth Cave allowed us to visit Cumberland Falls	Near Cumberland Falls	Near Cumberland Falls
A friend of a friend of a friend supplied us with a free white water rafting trip	Tthe landscape near the Tennessee / North Carolina border	Still along the river	A view from the trip home
My last night in Tennessee was spent in Smoky Mountain National Park with Tiffany	The panoramic views from Clingman's Dome were replaced by an eerie fog landscape, not what we'd expected, but still great	Finally the mist begins to lift on our way down the mountain	This Great Blue Heron allowed me to approach within nearly 20 feet to take this picture.