[Bristol-Birds] Cape May on Clinch Mnt./ Canada Warbler low elevation

15 May 2006
Washington Co., VA
Ron Harrington / Wallace Coffey

Canada Warbler -- 1 singing, 1460 feet elevation, from herbacious and young 
woody growth "brushy" area adjacent to hemlocks and rhododendron, Mongle 
Spring, North Fork Holston River, west of Abingdon.

Caple May Warbler --  1 adult male in breeding plummage, 3600 feet elevation, 
Hidden Valley Wildlife Management Area, Clinch Mountain, just upgrade from lake.

A curious vehicles parked near the dam at Hidden Valley Lake really caught our 
eye.  After our curiosity got the best of us, we investigated closely and 
speculated this might be Dr. Gary Graves, with the Division of Birds at the 
Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History.  He has been studying ecology 
and evolution of wood warblers and doing extensive research conducting 
long-term field studies in the Appalachian Mountains. It might not be long 
before we know for sure.

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

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