Vertebrates at or near Highlands Biological Laboratory

Weather: 9/6 -- chilly, misty; 9/7 -- sunny

Other notes: few birds around (chilly mist did not help!) -- almost no migrants -- White Pines all had small (4-6 cm) brown cones -- apparently aborted in last year's drought (fourth year without a cone crop)

Please send additions/corrections to Haven Wiley

Amphibia

	Bullfrog	1 photographed in the pond -- heard at night

Birds

	Green Heron	1 beside the pond
	Mute Swan	3 on the pond in the golf course -- introduced -- probably not breeding
	Mourning Dove	6
	Great Horned Owl	1 calling frequently at night
	Blue Jay	2
	American Crow	several flying over
	Common Raven	1 calling nearby
	Carolina Chickadee	4
	Tufted Titmouse	2
	Red-breasted Nuthatch *	2
	White-breasted Nuthatch	1
	Carolina Wren	1
	Gray Catbird	2
	American Robin	6
	Canada Warbler *	1
	Rose-breasted Grosbeak *	1 calling
	Eastern Towhee	2
	Song Sparrow	1
	American Goldfinch	4

Mammals

	Red Squirrel *	one calling briefly
	Gray Squirrel	several

* 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