The Roan Mountain CBC was held on Wed., 29 Dec. Temperatures were 17-38 F under clear to partly cloudy skies. It was windy, particularly so on top of the mountain. Also, there was about 2 inches of snow & ice on top. Six observers in 2 parties. Only 37 species. (The wind hurt & there are no cones in the spruce-fir forest.) complete list: Am. Black Duck - 21 Sharp-sh. Hawk - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 1 Mourning Dove - 3 Rock Pigeon - 1 E. Screech-Owl - 1 Great Horned Owl - 1 Belted Kingfisher - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 6 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 N. Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 E. Phoebe - 1 Blue Jay - 4 Am. Crow - 58 Com. Raven - 15 Carolina Chickadee - 32 Tufted Titmouse - 10 Red-br. Nuthatch - 3 White-br. Nuthatch - 6 Brown Creeper - 2 Carolina Wren - 14 Winter Wren - 1 Golden-cr. Kinglet - 11 Am. Robin - 1 N. Mockingbird - 1 Eur. Starling - 139 E. Towhee - 2 Field Sparrow - 5 Song Sparrow - 35 Swamp Sparrow - 1 White-thr. Sparrow - 8 Dark-eyed Junco - 56 N. Cardinal - 20 Red Crossbill - 2 Am. Goldfinch - 3 Pine Siskin - 1 Participants: Tom McNeil , Don Holt Richard, Phillip, & Mandy Lewis Rick Knight ################### Rick Knight Johnson City, TN rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************* 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-****