Highlight birds in this report include: Dickcissel, Grasshopper Sparrow, Least - Western - Solitary Sandpipers, Redheaded Woodpecker, and Blue Grosbeaks. Yesterday, 5-9-05, I wandered down to Keebler Road where I found a Dickcissel singing in the lone tree about halfway down the road. This was at about 5:30pm. Unknowingly and simultaneously Fred Alsop with his the TWRA group he is giving a birding refresher course to had Dickcissels at the intersection of Old SR 34 and Taylor Mill. On up the road from there around the edges of West View Pond (next to West View School) Fred and group had Least Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpiper, and Western Sandpipers. Back on Keebler Road, I had a few other good birds...Sharp-shinned Hawk, Red-tailed Hawk, Redheaded Woodpecker, Least Sandpiper (2), Solitary Sandpiper (5), Killdeer (2), and a Turkey Vulture lazily tilting back and forth on a thermal or two. Then it was off to Davey Crockett Birthplace State Park where I found a Yellow-breasted Chat in field in the back. Other birds found included - Spotted Sandpiper (1), Field Sparrow (~6), Chipping Sparrow (~5), Blue Grosbeak (1), Indigo Bunting (6), Common Grackles, Robins, Red-winged Blackbirds, Brown-headed Cowbirds, Tree Swallow, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, and Eastern Kingbirds (6 and 1 nest found). These birds should be recorded in Greene County. As I was leaving the park, newly married Alan Trently called to return my Sibley's Guide he borrowed over his honeymoon weekend. I told him about my day thus far and talked him into meeting me at the Exxon in Limestone and go back to relocate the Dickcissels. We picked up another good bird at our first stop back at Keebler - a Blue Grosbeak for Washington County. Then we headed to the Old SR 34 and Taylor Mill intersection to find ~3-4 Dickcissels singing (~8:00pm) along with a Northern Bobwhite, and 2-3 Grasshopper Sparrows singing here as well. We ended the day inbetween Keebler Rd and Davey Crockett Birthplace State Park with more Grasshopper Sparrows sining and many Chimney Swifts. 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-****