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8/14/02

Nature notebook

SMN


Birds:

° Chimney swift, downy woodpecker, common raven, red-breasted nuthatch, golden-crowned kinglet, blue-gray gnatcatcher, cedar waxwing, blue-headed vireo, red-eyed vireo, Tennessee warbler, chestnut-sided warbler, black-throated blue warbler, black-throated green warbler, blackburnian warbler, prairie warbler, black-and-white warbler, rose-breasted grosbeak and indigo bunting (8/11, Ridge Junction Overlook mp 355.8, reported from Carolina birds listserv)

° Double-crested cormorant, great blue heron, great egret, snowy egret, little blue heron, green heron, black-crowned night heron, white ibis, wood duck, mallard, blue-winged teal, osprey, semipalmated plover, greater yellowlegs, lesser yellowlegs, solitary sandpiper, spotted sandpiper, semipalmated sandpiper, least sandpiper, pectoral sandpiper, dowitcher sp., eastern kingbird, tree swallow, northern rough-winged swallow, barn swallow, cliff swallow, bank swallow, warbling vireo, yellow warbler, prothonotary warbler, northern water thrush and summer tanager (8/10 Rankin Bottom WMA, Cocke Cty. TN about 1 hr. from Waynesville, reported from Tennesee birds listserv)


Wildflowers:

° Monkshood, Aconitum uncinatum; small false hellebore, Veratrum parviflorum; green-headed coneflower, Rudbeckia lacinata; crimson bee-balm (Flat Creek Trail from Heintooga Picnic area, Beth Brinson)

° Featherbells, Stenanthium gramineum and obedient plant, Physostegia virginiana (near Mile High on Heintooga Road, Beth Brinson)

° Yellow fringed orchid, Plantanthera (near terminus of Blue Ridge Parkway at Cherokee, Beth Brinson)