April 30, 2005 Greeneville and Tusculum, Greene County Today brought the year's first bona fide wave of transients and summer residents to Greene County, and I was lucky enough to have time to surf it. When my list dried out, I found I had recorded the following: Green Heron; Solitary Sandpiper (2, including one in a rain puddle inside the Greeneville city limits--very unusual); Chimney Swift (16); Eastern Wood-Pewee; Great Crested Flycatcher (3); Tree Swallow; House Wren (11); Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (3); Veery; Gray-cheeked Thrush (the first April observation I've recorded); Wood Thrush; Gray Catbird (3); Brown Thrasher (2); White-eyed Vireo (2, including one first-year bird still retaining a dark eye); Yellow-throated Vireo; Red-eyed Vireo (4); Yellow Warbler (2); Chestnut-sided Warbler; Cape May Warbler (2); Palm Warbler; Blackburnian Warbler; American Redstart; Common Yellowthroat (3); Hooded Warbler (5); Yellow-breasted Chat; Rose-breasted Grosbeak (2); Indigo Bunting; Orchard Oriole (3); Baltimore Oriole. I also observed the following winter residents still hanging around: Ruby-crowned Kinglet (5); Yellow-rumped Warbler (7); Swamp Sparrow; White-throated Sparrow (11); White-crowned Sparrow (3). Don Miller Greeneville, 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-****