8/30/10, AM Carvers Gap and road pullout close to Carver's Gap I found a good number of warblers species at Carver's Gap this morning , but also especially at a pullout on the left hand side of the road 1.2 miles from Carver's Gap (headed back down to the town of Roan Mt.). In addition I saw a Merlin at the Gap and a Vesper Sparrow next to the parking lot. Warblers: American Redstart - 1 Hooded - 2 Magnolia - 2 Tennessee - 7 Chestnut-sided - 2 Black-throated Green - 3 Black-throated Blue - 5 Cape May - 4 Blackburnian - 4 Yellow-throated - 1 Bay-breasted - 1 Black & White - 1 I found the largest number of species (including the Cape Mays, Yellow-throated, Black and White, and the Bay-Breasted) in a mixed flock at the pulloff down from the gap. also: Merlin - 1 Coopers Hawk - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Vesper Sparrow - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 2 Blue-headed Vireo - 4 Least Flycatcher - 1 Eastern Wood Peewee - 2 Darrel Wilder Johnson City Washington Co. ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST NATURE CALENDAR for NE TN / SW VA: http://www.google.com:80/calendar/embed?src=eHlvbjQyQGdtYWlsLmNvbQ Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org 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 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-****