Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory

Weather: sunny and chilly -- little wind

Other notes: very few migrant birds

Please send additions/corrections to Haven Wiley

Birds

	Ruby-throated Hummingbird	2 hunting for insects in the sunshine near Valentine
	Eastern Phoebe	2 pairs behind Valentine -- a flycatcher
	Blue Jay	10
	American Crow	at least 6 including some young -- probably a family
	Carolina Chickadee	2 pairs
	Tufted Titmouse	2 pairs
	White-breasted Nuthatch	1
	Red-breasted Nuthatch *	one pair
	American Robin	10
	Golden-crowned Kinglet *	NONE THIS YEAR!
	Blue-headed Vireo **	1 singing
	Red-eyed Vireo	1
	Chestnut-sided Warbler *	2 including a male with chestnut sides
	Black-throated Green Warbler**	NONE THIS YEAR!
	Black-throated Blue Warbler**	NONE THIS YEAR!
	Hooded Warbler	NONE!
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak*	NONE!
	Song Sparrow	1
	Dark-eyed Junco **	10
	American Goldfinch	6 in trees behind Wright -- some males still with bright yellow and black breeding plumage

Mammals

	Eastern Cottontail	1 (presumably this species -- the rare New England Cottontail* might also occur -- it is almost impossible to identify without measuring a specimen)
	Red Squirrel *	1 calling briefly

Reptiles

	Northern Watersnake Nerodia sipedon	1 sunning itself beside the dining room

Amphibia

	Eastern Newt Notophthalmus viridescens	one small eft (brown with red/black spots) -- terrestrial immature stage of the newt -- found in the grass near the dining room by a sharp-eyed student!

* 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