FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Birds Around Big Stone Gap this week...

[Bill Cawood <b_cawood@xxxxxxxxx>]

Birders,
As a Biology teacher and bus driver I get some opportunity to be outside around 
daylight and at dusk.  Some days are good, some not.

Last Friday at 5:45am as I was leaving for school/bus run I had 2 Eastern 
screech owls in my yard.  One was in an oak near the house, the other was about 
200 feet away in a beech snag.  On my bus run I saw a red-tailed hawk near the 
Wise-Lee line on the Powell River. Scarlet Tanager near Powell Valley High 
School (PVHS)

Saturday at Natural Tunnel SP at the Stock Creek Interpretive Center the 
following birds were seen/heard;
kingfisher, GBH, 4 ruby throated humming birds, 12-15 goldfinches, pileated 
woodpecker, 1 adult RTH and her 2 fledglings (I assume, the pair have been 
active in some trees near Stock Creek all summer), wild turkey, ruffed grouse, 
bobwhite quail, 1 pair common ravens.

Sunday in Big Stone Gap; many goldfinches on the thistle feeder, screech owls 
again, blue-jays, red bellied woodpecker, chickadee, downy woodpecker.

Monday in BSG; daylight dozens of chimney swifts at PVHS, 2 turkey vultures 
feeding on roadkill in front of PVHS on rte. 610

Tuesday at Mountain Empire Community College: 21 common nighthawks in a flight 
over campus, 12-15 chimney swifts

I would like to announce to anyone interested that the BBC is leading birding 
hikes at NTSP the weekend of September 15.  Details coming later.

Bill Cawood; BSG, NTSP