This morning (1 Sep) I banded a Lincoln's Sparrow at Carver's Gap on Roan Mtn, in northeast Tenn. This date is 10 days earlier than the previous early fall date for Northeast Tenn. (5 county area) and a week earlier than the early fall date listed in the Annotated Checklist of Birds of Tenn. (Robinson 1990). Also, good numbers of Tenn. & Black-thr. Blue Warblers have been passing thru, with some Cape Mays & Blackburnians, Swainson's Thrushes, etc. A juvenile Hermit Thrush banded a couple of days ago was undoubtedly locally raised. ################### Rick Knight Johnson City, TN rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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-****