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Good morning all.    On May 01 in Augusta Co., a beautiful  ruffed grouse  
came out of the woods and just stood and walked in front of me, about ten 
feet away.   This morning, May 03,  I woke up to a beautiful  carolina wren  
tweeting  brilliantly on my back deck.
Sandwiched  in between  those  two beauties  were the birds of May 02.   It 
began in Rockingham Co. before the major warbling migrants effort.   Those 
birds  were:
ruby-thr. hummer,  rose-breasted grosbeaks, yellow-rumped warblers,  rock 
doves, mourning doves,  house sps,  song sp., starlings, crows, grackles,  
robins,  catbirds, house finches,  red-bel. wp,  blue jays,  phoebe,   and  
mockingbirds.
      But the real focus of the day was  Skyline Drive/Greene Co./Pocosin 
Hollow Trail --
many ovenbirds, many Amer. redstarts,  many  ceruleans,  several 
black-&-whites,
many chestnut-sideds,  a few yellow-rumped,  couple of canada warblers - 
visible  and  heard,  a black-thr. blue,  a few hooded  warblers heard,  a 
prairie warbler  loud and clear,  yellow  warbler,  and  several  parulas.    
Plus,  blue-gray gnatc., red-eyed vireo, yel-thr vireo,  solitary vireo,  
balt. oriole,  rose-br grosbeaks,  wood  thrushes,  veery,
LA waterthrush,  towhees galore,  Amer. goldfinches,  indigo bunting,  
carolina wren, house wren,  eastern  wood pewee,  acadian flycatcher,  great 
crested flycatcher,  eastern  kingbird,  scarlet tanager,  catbirds,  brown 
thrasher,  mockingbird, blue jays, meadowlarks,  turkey vultures,  and heard  
a red-shouldered  hawk very clearly,  barn swallows,  belted  kingfisher,  
chipping sps,  field sps,  dark-eyed juncos,  chickadees,
white-br. nuthatch,  tufted titmice,  cardinals,  downy wp, red-bel. wp, 
pileated wp.,  flicker,  wild  turkey,   starlings,  crows,  grackles, 
robins, and cowbirds.

It was a great humid day, completed with some  nice rainfall.

Mike Smith, Elkton
Richard Schiemann, Harrisonburg
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