Highlights today at Biltmore Estate's NW end (farmyard and roads and trails in vicinity of solar field) included purple martins investigating a martin house and a savannah sparrow. I did not check on the red-headed woodpecker sites. Next time. Chris Kelly, Asheville, NC Biltmore Estate, Buncombe, US-NC Mar 22, 2015 11:00 AM - 12:45 PM Protocol: Traveling 1.0 mile(s) Comments: Fields around Farmyard and points north/northwest (Westover Trail, road bed, solar field). 31 species Canada Goose 4 Turkey Vulture 3 Mourning Dove 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 4 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 3 American Crow 4 Purple Martin 5 At martin house in barnyard. Tree Swallow 12 Carolina Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 6 American Robin 73 Brown Thrasher 1 Northern Mockingbird 2 European Starling 9 Pine Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 5 Savannah Sparrow 1 Flushed out of a pile of wood posts and perched in a pine sapling. Song Sparrow 7 White-throated Sparrow 1 Northern Cardinal 3 Eastern Meadowlark 4 House Finch 4 View this checklist online at http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S22469608