[Bristol-Birds] Re: heads up, eyes up, down low, for raven's nests

Area Birders,

Bill Cawood at Big Stone Gap. Va. wrote to say there has been a nest of
ravens over the mouth of the Natural Tunnel in Scott County, VA at least 6
years out of the last 13. He has seen many nestling/fledglings in the nest.
After
the "visitor"  season begins in earnest at the state park in May, the Raven
pair often move down Stock Creek less than a mile to the abandoned Natural
Tunnel Stone quarry found just off of Rt. 871.

The elevation on the rock above Natural Tunnel is about 1650 feet.  At least
that is what my National Geographic "back roads explorer" topo maps program
indicates.

Until we are able to learn anything else, we might want to establish 1650
feet as the lowest known elevation record for a Common Raven nest in
Southwest Virginia and the site as Natural Tunnell State Park.

For practical purposes, Southwest Virginia can be defined as that segment of
the Upper Tennessee and Big Sandy River basins in Virginia and whatever
portion of the Mount Rogers, Pine Mountain, Whitetop Mountain high-country
complex that is in the Upper Tennessee and New River basins. The Big Sandy
contains the Levisa and Tug Forks that flows northward into Kentucky forming
the Big Sandy River. The southwestward flowing Holston, Clinch, and Powell
tributaries form the Tennessee River in Tennessee. The Upper Tennessee-Big
Sandy River Basin spans three physiographic provinces: Cumberland Plateau,
Ridge and Valley, and the Blue Ridge.

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol



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