Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory

Weather: drizzle, rain, or mist all day!

Other notes: few migrant birds except for one little flock of warblers -- with a dandy or two!

Please send additions/corrections to Haven Wiley

Birds

	Eastern Phoebe	1 -- a flycatcher looking pretty desperate in the chilly drizzle!
	Blue Jay	2
	American Crow	4 -- probably a family
	Carolina Chickadee	2 pairs
	Gray Catbird	1
	Tennessee Warbler	2 at least
	Chestnut-sided Warbler *	1
	Magnolia Warbler *	2
	Blackburnian Warbler *	1 male with spectacular orange, black, and white plumage
	Eastern Towhee	2
	Song Sparrow	2
	Dark-eyed Junco **	10

Mammals

	Gray Squirrel	2 in residential areas
	Red Squirrel *	1 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