Area Birders, Yesterday about 7:20 AM the first sight that greeted me through my kitchen window was the yellow of a male HOODED WARBLER as he hopped around in the cherry tree just outside. His white outer tail feathers were visible with each flit of his tail. Within less time than it takes to tell it there was a female HOODED, a WORM-EATING WARBLER, a first year female CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, and a male BLACK-THROATED GREEN WARBLER in the same tree. Evidently it was a small feeder flock moving through. Later in the backyard were two BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERS, a RED-EYED VIREO and a GREAT CRESTED FLYCATCHER. One species that has not yet shown up here is the TN Warbler, but it is still early in the season. A SHARP-SHINNED HAWK put all of the feeder birds to fleeing, when it made a sudden, unnoticed arrival. It came and went so fast that I couldn't tell if it got breakfast or not. A second after it scattered the birds it was giving chase to one. It was still in hot pursuit when it disappeared from sight. Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Grundy, VA ************************************************* 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-****