Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory

Weather: cool and misty in the morning -- hazy in the afternoon -- little wind

Other notes: not a single migrant bird around -- some species seen nearly every year previously were not found this trip (those marked "NONE!" below) -- White Pines all had small (3-4 cm) cones (second year in a row)

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Birds

	Mourning Dove	10
	Downy Woodpecker	1 calling near Illges
	Hairy Woodpecker ***	a pair in trees behind Wright -- they seemed a shade bigger than those near Chapel Hill and had slightly deeper calls -- pure white outer tail feathers seen clearly!
	Eastern Phoebe	2 -- a flycatcher
	Blue Jay	2
	American Crow	several flying over
	Common Raven	several calling nearby
	Carolina Chickadee	one pair
	Tufted Titmouse	one pair
	White-breasted Nuthatch	one pair
	Golden-crowned Kinglet *	NONE!
	Gray Catbird	1
	Blue-headed Vireo **	1 singing briefly
	Black-throated Green Warbler **	NONE!
	Black-throated Blue Warbler **	NONE!
	Hooded Warbler	1 calling
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak *	1 calling
	Dark-eyed Junco **	6
	Purple Finch *	at least 3 flying over and calling -- a northern species rarely found nesting in the southern Appalachians -- these birds might have nested somewhere nearby since it was much too early for wintering birds to have arrived from the north -- first time found on a BIOL 72L trip in September!
	American Goldfinch	4 flying over

Mammals

	Red Squirrel *	one calling briefly

* northern species that extends southward in the mountains to southern Appalachians

** northern species that extends southward in the mountains and has evolved a distinctive subspecies in the southern Appalachians

*** species with a northern subspecies that extends southward in the mountains to the southern Appalachians