Went birding this morning from 8-1130 at Rock Creek Recreation area. Saw several new birds this year. Overall, nice weather this morning, except for some wind. Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Rock Pigeon Mourning Dove Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Blue-Headed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Common Raven Carolina Chickadee Purple Martin Tufted Titmouse White-Breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Ruby-Crowned Kinglet American Robin Northern Parula Black-Throated Green Warbler Black and White Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Northern Cardinal Common Grackle Also went to the Erwin Hatckery Pong and had the following birds: Osprey Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard House Sparrow Common Grackle Red-Winged Blackbird American Crow Song Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Chipping Sparrow Yellow-Rumped Warbler Cedar Waxwings Northern Mockingbird Northern Rough-Winged Swallow Tree Swallow Downy Woodpecker Killdeer Coopers Hawk European Starling Finally, driving back along I-26, stopped at the boardwalk and saw the following species: Red-Tailed Hawk Rock Pigeon Green Heron American Goldfinch Chimney Swift Barn Swallow Tree Swallow Blue Jay American Crow Northern Mockingbird Song Sparrow Red-Winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark House Finch Jacob Job ETSU Johnson City, TN --------------------------------- Yahoo! Messenger Show us what our next emoticon should look like. Join the fun. ************************************************* 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-****