Today, 02-12-04, I saw a few GBH on the nests in the rookerie near my house and school. This is the earliest I have seen them near the nests in the 5 years I have observed the nesting site. Last year they began to show up en masse around Feb 25. I did not observe numbers just a few in the nest trees. I was unaware that they nested this early but the 250 robins in my yard on Monday were a surprise too. Bill Cawood, Big Stone Gap VA --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Finance: Get your refund fast by filing online ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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-****