Area Birders, On this bright sunny morning, with TOWHEES, CHIPPING SPARROWS, ROBINS, BLUEBIRDS and CARDINALS all singing, I heard the first of the season WHITE-EYED VIREO in a tree in the neighbor's pasture. I had to stop and try to filter the sound out of all of the other songs. Two Cardinals were singing practically overhead, and they were drowning out the distant vireo song. I finally managed to catch the song a couple of times between the Cardinal songs and verified that it was the White-eyed. A few minutes later I watched a BROAD-WINGED HAWK circle upward from a nearby ridge. It really stood out against the blue sky with the crisp sunlight bringing out its color as it finally headed eastward. About five minutes later I saw another BROAD-WINGED, or possibly the same one, also headed eastward at about the same altitude. A couple of hours later my wife saw the adult COOPER'S HAWK, that has been visiting the feeder recently. It came in to the tree with the feeders, looked around, dropped to the ground, went under an azalea bush, came out, flew to the yard pond, took a drink, then flew off into the woods empty taloned. Too bad it didn't get one of the many COWBIRDS, that are coming in to feed. Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Compton Mt Buchanan County ************************************************* 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-****