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RE: Max Patch



Sorry for the late comment on the Max Patch question for the CBC meeting, but 
I've been out of town for a week and a half.  Just to add to Harry's 
description of its location, the road to the Goldenwings is from the Hwy 209 
exit off I-40.  You follow Hwy 209 to Fines Creek Road which becomes Max Patch 
Road.  If you find Fines Creek on the map and follow it upstream to the 
headwaters you'll get the idea. The Golden-wings (as well as Least 
Flycatchers) are found for some distance up Fines Creek/Max Patch Road, but 
pretty much end where the pastures end and the more forested area starts. In 
the forested area Blackburnians become much more common.  You won't be out of 
earshot of Chestnut-sided for most of the trip.  Lots of other warblers also 
can be found along the whole trip.  The bald itself is not overloaded with 
birds, but you may hear some Bobwhite up there. Going over the top to the 
other side of the road in Madison County there is a nice pocket of Canada 
Warblers.
  For those interested in this trip, there will probably be less walking than 
is mentioned in the write-up.  It will probably involve more of a 
drive/stop/walk a little way/drive again type of trip. This is a windy, 
gravel, mountainous road, but very little traveled, so parking along the side 
shouldn't be a huge problem, although the more that people double-up the 
better as lots of cars trying to park may be difficult.  The person who is 
leading this trip lives in Haywood County and has done the Golden-wing study, 
so he knows the area very well.
Marilyn Westphal
Hendersonville, NC
mjwestphal@unca.edu