Area Birders, Yesterday a friend and I birded the strip site here on Compton Mt in Buchanan Co. The area used to be open to hikers, birders, and 4 wheelers, but a section of the land now has a new owner and he has closed the road. However, I did get permission for our bird club members to bird the area. We are finding more and more of these areas gated and posted. We found CARDINALS, CAROLINA CHICKADEES, TITMICE, CAROLINA WRENS and RUFFED GROUSE. One of the more interesting species we saw was GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETS, but the top species located was a RED-BREASTED NUTHATCH. 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-****