Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory

Weather: sunny with southeast wind in morning -- calm or northwest in afternoon

Other notes: few migrant birds around -- White Pines all had small (4-6 cm) cones (third year in a row)

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Birds

	Broad-winged Hawk	1 immature crossed the road in town
	Mourning Dove	10
	Ruby-throated Hummingbird	12 or more (incuding some males with irridescent throats) feeding on nectar from Impatiens on the far side of the lake -- with lots of chasing and fighting to defend patches of flowers
	Downy Woodpecker	1 calling near Illges
	Blue Jay	2
	American Crow	several flying over
	Common Raven	several calling nearby
	Carolina Chickadee	one pair
	White-breasted Nuthatch	one pair
	Brown Creeper	1 calling behind Weyman (dining hall)
	Gray Catbird	3
	American Robin	40 or more drifting southward through the treetops in small parties
	Swainson's Thrush	1 singing softly
	Blue-headed Vireo **	1 singing briefly
	Tennessee Warbler	2
	Pine Warbler	2
	Chestnut-sided Warbler *	1
	Black-throated Green Warbler **	2
	Black-throated Blue Warbler **	usually nesting at Highlands -- but this year NONE for the second year in a row!
	Hooded Warbler	1 calling
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak *	1 calling
	Dark-eyed Junco **	6
	Purple Finch *	at least 5 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 -- second year in a row on a BIOL 72L trip in September!

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