GABO-ers,

Sterling Blanchard and I birded Ivy Log Gap Road and environs this morning. Blairsville Ingles Store: WILLOW FLYCATCHER COMMON YELLOWTHROAT Ivy Log Gap Road: (HEAVEN MUST BE SOMETHING LIKE THIS) 8am-12:30pm. Mostly sunny, temp: 64F PEOPLE - 0 CARS - 0 CHAIN SAWS - 0 LEAF BLOWERS - 0 BLACK BEAR MAMA WITH CUB - she tried to stare us down (and succeeded) until the cub got off the road into the woods; she then followed. WHITE-TAILED DEER - 1 WILD TURKEY - 1 hen RUFFED GROUSE - 1 VIREOS: WHITE-EUED, RED-EYED, BLUE-HEADED, YELLOW THROATED WARBLERS: N. PARULA, Y.B. CHAT, BLACK THROATED GREEN, CHESTNUT-SIDED, HOODED, BLACK AND WHITE, AM. REDSTART (MALE BRINGING CATERPILLARS TO 3 YOUNG IN NEST 5 FEET AWAY AT EYE-LEVEL), BLACKBURNIAN (2 MALES HAVING A TERRITORIAL DISPUTE), CERULEAN (1 HEARD), AND OVENBIRD (EVERYWHERE, CONSTANTLY SINGING). SCARLET TANAGER ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK INDIGO BUNTING (EVERYWHERE) YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO - 2 IN EXPOSED BARE BRANCHES - A LIVING AUDUBON PRINT WOOD THRUSH (very hard to drive or walk away) EASTERN PHOEBE ACADIAN FLYCATCHER Blairsville Ranger Station: (Giff Beaton's Birding Georgia states YELLOW-THROATED WARBLERS are always in the large pines. Bold, but accurate! They were there, along with a singing first year ORCHARD ORIOLE, CEDAR WAXWINGS, EASTERN KINGBIRD, GREAT-CRESTED FLYCATCHER and SCARLET TANAGER. Not a bad little stop for 1:30 in the afternoon! A great day of birding!

Good birding

Mark Davis Atlanta, Georgia

********** To search GABO-L archives or manage your subscription, go to http://www.listserv.uga.edu/archives/gabo-l.html

To contact a listowner, send message to GABO-L-request@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU

To view GABO-L information/guidelines, go to http://www.gos.org/gabo.html