[Bristol-Birds] Birds this week

Not too much to report.  
Wednesday: 6:55am -- 40+ chimney swifts at the chimney of Powell Valley High 
School. 
                       11:25am -- 1 Kestrel chasing chimney swifts around said 
chimney
                        11:34am -- 40+ chimney swifts mobbing said kestrel
 
Thursday: 2 Indigo buntings, 20+ cedar waxwings, 5 turkey vultures, pileated 
woodpecker, flicker
 
Friday:       Flight of ducks passing in front of bus windsield at about 50 
feet.  
                   1 red shoulder hawk passing in front of the bus windshield 
at less than 1 foot, it literally had to lift                       its right 
wing to avoid hitting the bus. 
 
Saturday:   NTSP; Red bellied, hairy, downy & pileated woodpecker.  Kingfisher, 
GBH on Stock Creek near                          the interpreter's office, 
turkey vulture, 
                    BSG; large group of cedar waxwings feeding in a holly tree, 
great horned owl at 8pm
 
 Sunday: Powell Valley; GBH, 2 male & 3-5 female bluebirds , 100+ crows, 100+ 
starlings, large flock of what                 appeared to be cedar waxwings, 3 
bluejays in the white oak over my carport taking acorns
 
Bill Cawood
Powell Valley near Big Stone Gap, VA

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