June 13, 2005 Cherokee Dam (Jefferson County) I was in Jefferson City briefly this afternoon and stopped by Cherokee Dam for a bit of birding before heading back toward Greeneville. I chose not to drive past the visitor's center toward the overlook but instead pulled in below the dam, along the tailwaters. Just after turning off Highway 92 onto the short driveway that deadends below the dam, I heard a Warbling Vireo singing in a grove of trees to the left. Chuck Nicholson's Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee shows no info on Warbling Vireo in Jefferson County, though there is a block marked "probable" just over the line in Grainger County at approximately the spot that would include the shore on the other side of the Holston River from the Cherokee Dam area. Of course, that data was gathered many years ago and may be unrelated to my observation today, but I would guess that the Holston River below Cherokee Dam may well contain quite a bit of suitable Warbling Vireo nesting habitat. In any case, the bird is hard to find in northeast Tennessee, and I was pleasantly surprised to locate one today. Don Miller Greeneville, TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****