  The recent discovery by the Pierre Auger collaboration of anisotropy in the
arrival directions of the highest energy cosmic rays, correlated with the
positions of nearby active galactic nuclei, encourages the search for
counterpart TeV gamma-ray emission. Approximately half of the sky viewed by the
southern hemisphere Pierre Auger experiment is also visible at reasonable
elevations for the northern hemisphere gamma-ray telescope array, VERITAS. We
report on first observations by VERITAS of regions associated with the arrival
directions of ultra-high energy cosmic ray events.
