Area Birders, Today a non-birder friend and I hiked the new Bike and Hike trail recently opened near Grundy. The trail runs for a couple of miles through large deciduous and Hemlock trees a few hundred feet above slate creek. It promises to be a good birding trail, especially during the breeding season. It will be a great trail for Wood Warblers. Today we saw PILEATED WOODPECKERS, DOWNY WOODPECKERS, a singing WINTER WREN, CAROLINA WRENS, BLUE JAYS, CAROLINA CHICKADEES, TUFTED TITMICE AND AMERICAN CROWS. By the way, the non-birder friend says he is starting to enjoy birding. 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-****