Birds:

Hermit thrush, black-capped chickadee, golden-crowned kinglet, red-breasted nuthatch, chestnut-sided warbler, Canada warbler, black-throated green warbler, black-throated blue warbler, winter wren, blue-headed vireo, red-eyed vireo and downy woodpecker, (Polls Gap on Heintooga Spur Rd.)

Veery, & indigo bunting, (Jenkins Ridge overlook BRP)

Wildflowers:

Small green wood orchid, Platanthera clavellata; false asphodel, Tofieldia glutinosa; (seepage near Wolf Mountain overlook on BRP, Beth Brinson 7/19)

Hercules club, Aralia spinosa; - the decompound leaves of this shrub or

small tree are the largest leaves of any North American vascular plant (near southern terminus of BRP around milepost 463)

Salamanders:

Black-bellied salamander, Desmognathus quadramaculatus; and either ocoee or imitator salamander — leaning towards imitator, Desmognathus imitatator — but no way to be certain in the field ( at seepage along Heintooga Spur Road)

And a treat — Dragonflies. Josh was headed to Chattanooga to lead an Odonata (dragonfly) workshop and helped us ID some at Ferguson Fields:

Eastern amberwing, common whitetail, widow skimmer, twelve-spotted skimmer, slaty skimmer, spangled skimmer, eastern pondhawk, blue dasher, ruby meadowhawk, band-wing meadowhawk & fragile forktail, a damselfly (Ferguson Fields)