Area Birders, My wife and I birded the Breaks Interstate Park on the VA KY border today. BLUE-HEADED VIREOS were singing in the park, and a couple of BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS were heard at two locations. The first YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER found in the park this season was singing from a tall pine. We were expecting to find Black-throated Green Warblers, but they were nowhere to be found. They will probably show up within the next couple of days. They were found there last year on April 3. A female RING-NECKED DUCK was on the park lake. One pair of the park's 17 nesting pairs of Wood Ducks flushed from some cattails. A Carolina Chickadee had commandeered a Prothonatary Warbler nest box we had erected last year near Bull Mt. Chickadees used it last year also. Ten TREE SWALLOWS were observed over a field and some were checking out a bluebird nest box near the Breaks community. A RED-SHOULDERED HAWK was heard in the area, and on the way home we stopped to check out a RED-TAILED HAWK nest that had been used last year. The nest is located on Clevinger Curve of Rt. 460 west pf Grundy just across the Levisa River. The head of what looked like an adult RED-TAIL could be seen peeking above the edge of the nest. We found a total of 29 species. With great weather it was an excellent day to be out. Following is a complete list of species. Roger Mayhorn Compton Mt. Buchanan County Northern Cardinal 3 American Crow 6 Turkey Vulture 3 Downy Woodpecker 1 Tufted Titmouse 8 Blue-headed Vireo 3 Black-and-white Warbler 2 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 American Robin 14 Carolina Chickadee 2 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 3 Mourning Dove 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Eastern Bluebird 1 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Chipping Sparrow 9 Field Sparrow 1 Song Sparrow 3 Ring-necked Duck 1 Wood Duck 2 Blue Jay 2 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 1 Tree Swallow 10 Brown Thrasher 2 Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 ************************************************* 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-****