Hey folks, Here are highlights of another week! I will be glad to give directions for particular sites and birds to any interested birders in the area. Just e-mail me personally dnldhlt@xxxxxxx for particulars. Sorry about the late postings. Don Holt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- FRI 05 MAY 2006 Dry Creek Rd., (Hoss Cove Gap), Washington Co., TN Palm Warbler Swainson's Warbler (same site as Wed.) Louisiana Waterthrush Clark's Creek Recreation Area, Cherokee National Forest, Unicoi Co.,TN Swainson's Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUE 09 MAY 2006 Winged Deer Park, Washington Co., TN Yellow-billed Cuckoo Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-eyed Vireo Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Gray-cheeked Thrush - saw 2, heard a third singing! Wood Thrush Brown Thrasher - pair on nest Northern Parula Magnolia Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Black-&-white Warbler Kentucky Warbler - singing and flying around an area as if on territory Scarlet Tanager - 3, including a female building a nest Rose-breasted Grosbeak Indigo Buntings ---------------------------------------------------------------- WED 10 MAY 2006 Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greene Co., TN Wild Turkey Northern Bobwhite Green Heron Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Belted Kingfisher Red-headed Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Eastern Wood-Pewee Great-crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Pine Warbler Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Grasshopper Sparrow Orchard Oriole ------------------------------------------------------------------- THU 11 May 2006 Little Indian Creek Rd., Greene Co., TN Canada Warbler Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greene Co., TN Magnolia Warbler --------------------------------------------------------------- FRI 12 MAY 2006 Charlie Carson Rd., Washington Co.,TN American Kestrel (a pair is nesting in a barn owl nestbox in the red barn near the intersection with Thompson Lane) Savannah Sparrow - 2 Blue Grosbeak -3, one was being harrassed by a Red-winged Blackbird -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUN 14 MAY 2006 Elizabethton, Carter Co., TN Yellow-crowned Night Heron - 7, at various sites -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MON 15 MAY 2006 Charlie Carson Rd.,Washington Co., TN Northern Bobwhite - 2 Yellow-billed Cuckoo House Wren American Redstart Common Yellowthroat Savannah Sparrow - 6 (3 pairs, 2 males observed singing) Blue Grosbeak - 3 Bobolink - 3 males, 2 females, in same field used for last several years Orchard Oriole - 2 Little Indian Creek Rd., Greene Co., TN Northern Bobwhite - 2 Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greene Co., TN Wild Turkey-2 Northern Bobwhite - 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eastern Wood-Pewee Swainson's Thrush Yellow-rumped Warbler American Redstart - 3 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Don Holt Johnson City, TN