Weekend in the Ga "mountains"

What a surprise - down in the creek valley red-eyed vireos sang all day long, invisibly, while a pair of black-throated green warblers browsed through the cypresses; belted kingfishers swept up and down the streambed, crows and pileated woodpeckers filled in the silence while chickadees, titmice and eastern phoebes worked lazily in the heat. Summer is rarely so busy here, near Rich Mountain Wilderness area.