Area Birders, Today (1/5/05) my wife, Lynda and I ( Roger Mayhorn) took advantage of the warm temperatures and birded Burkes Garden in Tazewell County. Even though it was warm the birds were not moving about. We did get great looks at an adult male NORTHERN HARRIER as it wheeled and turned over a pasture, just a few feet off the ground, and close enough to give us great binocular looks. We also found 5 RED-TAILS and one KESTREL hunting throughout the valley, but found no Golden Eagles nor Rough-legged Hawks, that we were hoping for. On the water near the entrance to the valley were 9 BLACK DUCKS, 66 CANADA GEESE and 57 MALLARDS. In the timbered areas we located 4 RED-HEADED WOODPECKERS, 1 RED-BELLIED female, and 1 DOWNY. Except for STARLINGS we found no blackbirds, which surprised me somewhat. In the same field as the flock of Starlings was a flock of MEADOWLARKS. We counted 12, but I think there were more, as single ones would pop up from time to time in different areas of the field. Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Grundy, VA Buchanan County ************************************************* 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-****