Hampton Creek Cove State Natural Area, Carter County TN August 3, 2007 In upper east Tennessee last week I visited Roan Mt. State Park and Hampton Creek Cove SNA. At Hampton Creek I took the Shell Hollow trail and at about 3500 feet I ran into several feeding flocks of chickadees, warblers, vireos etc. It reminded me of that same altitudinal zone in the Latin-American tropics where you run into mixed feeding flocks (and yes, it was actually cool in the shade!). But the altitude was still low enough that the thrush was Wood Thrush and the chickadees were Carolina Chickadees. Most flocks were seen in crabapple trees, the attraction being whatever bugs they were finding there. Turkey Vulture Ruby-throated Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Carolina Wren Wood Thrush Gray Catbird Brown Thrasher Golden-winged Warbler - 1st yr. female, very dull pattern Chestnut-sided Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler - family group with several faintly marked young Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Indigo Bunting American Goldfinch Richard Connors Nashville TN ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________