This report is a belated report that should have been reported on Saturday night. My schedule that night changed with onoe phone call while coming back in from birding and of course, Sunday was spend all day in the field with Don Holt (which he reported about). By the time I arrived back in Sunday evening it was just enough time to eat and host the bird chat on AOL Sunday night @ 9. Then I was too pooped to do much else but sleep and Monday was work - birding (which Wallace Coffey reported) and back to work. For those keeping records, this reports reflects Saturday April 9, 2005. Watauga Lake, Butler Area, Little Milligan, and Pond Mountain was covered in our daylight to noon + birding in Carter County. We had a handful +2 Warblers, 2 Vireos, all 3 Mimic Thrushes, a heron another color than blue, and a Brown Creeper singing along the northern end of Watauga Lake. First for the year is in all CAPS The complete list follows: Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Hooded Merganser RUFFED GROUSE (2 drumming, 1 strutting across road) Common Loon Double-crested Cormorant Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Osprey Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Red-belliled Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe WHITE-EYED VIREO BLUE HEADED VIREO Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Tree Swallow Northern-roughed Winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse BROWN CREEPER (singing) Carolina Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird BROWN THRASHER European Starling NORTHERN PARULA Yellow-rumped Warbler BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler BLACK AND WHITE WARBLER LOUISANA WATERTHRUSH Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Commn Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird House Finch American Goldfinch Rob Biller Elizabethton, TN ************************************************* 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-****