This afternoon, Dave Worley, Richard Kretz and I birded the Elk Garden, Stuarts Pond and Clifton areas of Russell County. Highlights included 2 Golden Eagles in Corn Valley, 1 Gadwall and 2 Hooded Mergansers at Stuarts Pond, and 2 Loggerhead Shrike on Clifton Farms Road. A complete list of species and numbers follows: Canada Goose - 112 Gadwall - 1 Mallard - 6 Hooded Merganser - 2 Wild Turkey - 15 Great Blue Heron - 3 Turkey Vulture -1 Unusual in winter Red-tailed Hawk - 7 Golden Eagle - 2 American Kestrel - 2 Killdeer - 3 Wilson's Snipe - 3 Rock Pigeon - 3 Mourning Dove - 147 Belted Kingfisher - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 2 Pileated Woodpecker - 3 Loggerhead Shrike - 2 Blue Jay - 3 American Crow - 588 Common Raven - 3 Carolina Chickadee - 2 Tufted Titmouse - 3 White-breasted Nuthatch - 3 Carolina Wren - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 3 European Starling - 195 Savannah Sparrow - 1 Song Sparrow - 5 White-throated Sparrow - 3 White-crowned Sparrow - 19 Dark-eyed Junco - 5 Northern Cardinal - 3 American Goldfinch - 2 35 species Tom Hunter Russell County Bird Club ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ =========================================================== Mailing List For Buchanan County Bird Club website: www.bcbirdclub.org Archives: //www.freelists.org/archives/bcbirdclub =========================================================== Administrative contact: donc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ===========================================================