Howdy,
Bruce Grimes & my son Alan & I spent a couple of hours on Brumley Mountain,
and at Hidden Valley Lake, yesterday morning (August 8, 2004).
We journeyed up there mainly for dragonflies, but it was a rather chilly
morning for early August, and we didn't find much bug activity except for
those buzzy critters that like to bite people.
One mixed flock of chickadees and titmice had a few warblers including one
Magnolia, that may or may not have been a migrant. What is summer status of
Magnolia in that local vicinity? I suspect it was a migrant.
Also I found a couple of immature Red-shouldered Hawks that kept screeching
and squealing about something, perhaps about me, and all the racket I was
making walking near them. Bruce had a bit earlier seen an adult
Red-shouldered.
Here's the tally for Brumley.
Turkey Vulture 2
Mallard 1 female
Red-shouldered Hawk 3
Mourning Dove 2
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Chimney Swift 1
Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3
Eastern Wood-Pewee 1
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue-headed Vireo 6
Red-eyed Vireo 4
Blue Jay 2
American Crow 2 or 3
Rough-winged Swallow 2
Carolina Chickadee 4 (two singing)
Tufted Titmouse 2
Carolina Wren 2 or 3
Gray Catbird 5
Cedar Waxwing 16
Magnolia Warbler 1
Black-throated Blue Warbler 3 (2 singing)
Black-throated Green Warbler 4
Worm-eating Warbler 1
Hooded Warbler 1
Canada Warbler 1
Scarlet Tanager 1
Eastern Towhee 4
Dark-eyed Junco 3
Red-winged Blackbird 1
American Goldfinch 13
Cheers,
Clyde Kessler
Radford, VA
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