2003 Trip Pics
Burkes Garden trip
Burkes garden is a beautiful spot about
2.5 hours southwest of here. I hope that we will see bald and golden eagles,
kestrels, northern harriers, rough-legged hawks, red-tailed hawks, bluebirds
and many other species.
We will leave around 8:00am Saturday and return before 6:30pm the same day. It really is a beautiful place. Some folks are considering camping out in the surrounding mountains. It will be cold, but the surrounding mountains are a great place to back pack and camp out.
Here are the directions in case you want to know how to get there. Actually, there are several ways to get there, these directions are from mapquest:
Take the US-460 W towards BLUEFIELD
46.28 miles
Merge onto I-77 S (Portions toll)
7.81 miles
Get back on route US-460 W.
Take the ramp towards TAZEWELL.
0.27 miles
Keep RIGHT at the fork in the ramp.
0.05 miles
Stay straight to go onto US-19 BR/US-460
BR. 1.24 miles
Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto VA-61.
4.92 miles
Turn RIGHT onto VA-623. 7.59
miles
Total Estimated Time: Total Distance: 93.57 miles
List of Species:
January 26, 2002 - Burkes Garden
1) Carolina chickadees, 2) Song sparrow, 3) White-breasted
nuthatch, 4) Common Raven, 5) Red-tailed hawk, 6) Mallard, 7) Canada goose,
8) Hooded merganser, 9) Northern pintail, 10) Eastern meadowlarks, 11)
European starlings, 12) Downy woodpecker, 13) Blue jay, 14) American crow,
15) Red-bellied woodpecker, 16) Great blue herons, 17) Eastern bluebird,
18) Horned larks, 19) Golden eagle, 20) Merlin,
21) Northern harrier, 22) American Goldfinch, 23) Rough-legged hawk,
24) Red-headed woodpecker, 25) American Kestrel, 26) Black Vulture, 27)
Turkey Vulture, 28) House sparrow
January 25, 2003 - Burkes Garden
1) Carolina chickadees, 2) Song sparrow, 3) White-breasted
nuthatch, 4) Common Raven, 5) Red-tailed hawk, 6) Mallard, 7) Canada goose,
8) Eastern meadowlarks, 9) European starlings, 10) Downy woodpecker, 11)
Hairy woodpecker, 12), American pipit, 13) Blue jay, 14) American
crow, 15) Red-bellied woodpecker, 16) Great blue herons, 17) Eastern bluebird,
18) Common Snipe, 19) Golden eagle, 20) Merlin,
21) American Kestrel, 22) Tufted titmouse, 23) Rough-legged hawk,
24) Bald Eagle, 25) Black Vulture, 26) Wild Turkey, 27) Killdeer,
28) Rock Dove, 29) Mourning Dove, 30) Northern Flicker, 31) Pileated Woodpecker,
32) House sparrow, 33) Brown-headed cowbird, 34) Northern Cardinal