----- Original Message ----- From: "ckessler" <ckessler@xxxxxx> To: <va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 9:24 PM Subject: [va-bird] Birds on Brumley Mountain, Washington County VA > Howdy, > > Bruce Grimes & my son Alan & I spent a couple of hours on Brumley Mountain, > and at Hidden Valley Lake, yesterday morning (August 8, 2004). > > We journeyed up there mainly for dragonflies, but it was a rather chilly > morning for early August, and we didn't find much bug activity except for > those buzzy critters that like to bite people. > > One mixed flock of chickadees and titmice had a few warblers including one > Magnolia, that may or may not have been a migrant. What is summer status of > Magnolia in that local vicinity? I suspect it was a migrant. > > Also I found a couple of immature Red-shouldered Hawks that kept screeching > and squealing about something, perhaps about me, and all the racket I was > making walking near them. Bruce had a bit earlier seen an adult > Red-shouldered. > > Here's the tally for Brumley. > > Turkey Vulture 2 > Mallard 1 female > Red-shouldered Hawk 3 > Mourning Dove 2 > Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 > Chimney Swift 1 > Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 > Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 > Eastern Phoebe 2 > Blue-headed Vireo 6 > Red-eyed Vireo 4 > Blue Jay 2 > American Crow 2 or 3 > Rough-winged Swallow 2 > Carolina Chickadee 4 (two singing) > Tufted Titmouse 2 > Carolina Wren 2 or 3 > Gray Catbird 5 > Cedar Waxwing 16 > Magnolia Warbler 1 > Black-throated Blue Warbler 3 (2 singing) > Black-throated Green Warbler 4 > Worm-eating Warbler 1 > Hooded Warbler 1 > Canada Warbler 1 > Scarlet Tanager 1 > Eastern Towhee 4 > Dark-eyed Junco 3 > Red-winged Blackbird 1 > American Goldfinch 13 > > Cheers, > > Clyde Kessler > Radford, VA > > You are subscribed to VA-BIRD. To post to this mailing list, simply send email to va-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send email to > va-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. > > ************************************************* 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-****