Guess I started a thread here... My fiancee and I are "cycle-hiking" the
Appalachian Trail, hoping to do it in bits large and small over the next 25
years. (100 miles down, 2,000 to go!) We do our intensive birding elsewhere,
at other times. But birds and other wildlife are a great excuse to stop and
look when we come across them. It'd be fun and useful to put together even
an unofficial AT birding checklist - the trail goes through quite a variety
of habitats (and lots of state and national parks). We've seen D-C
Cormorants along the C&O Canal; swifts and house sparrows in Harper's Ferry;
Wild Turkeys; and lots of raptors and passerines.
        Bill Bryson: Great book. But I can't forgive him for not finishing the
trail!

        7/7/04 sighting: Great Egret at Kenilworth Aquatic Gardens, DC, along with
many fledgling starlings, Am Robins, mockingbirds and E Pheobes.

        Warren Strobel, Cape St. Claire, MD