The resident pair of Red-shouldered Hawks at the American Way/Greenbelt site in Kingsport are cycling up for another nesting season. This morning they were perched together at the edge of the greenbelt parking area in one of their favorite early morning sunning spots. We haven't located the nest for this year yet, but they should be well on their way to another successful year by now. When the left their perch this morning they flew to the west towards last years nest site. Bill Grigsby and I have both also observed them farther east than last year. I placed a short video clip (4.4 mb) on my charter site for downloading and viewing. I shot this through a spotting scope coupled to a video camera, the magnification is extreme. There was also a lot of heat waves rising off the parking lot between me and the birds. In other words...it's pretty blurry, but still gives you an idea of what you might have seen this morning. Best to right click the mpg file and choose "save as" to download it. Then watch it with Windows Media Player. When I click the link my Quicktime plays it and does distorts it somehow. The link is webpages.charter.net/mtnsunfish/video...the file is redshouldered 01.mpg Rick Rick Phillips Kingsport, Tennessee ************************************************* 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-****