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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Don,

But the question is, did Virg Carr give you a bag of pink, red and yellow 
tomatoes ?  He did me.  They are delicious !  So that ought to tell you 
something ;-)  I would have had all the additional birds you reported except I 
left my eye glasses, binoculars and scope at home.  Being birding blind, in 
such cases, I had to identify all my birds by ear.  I did not hear the 
additional egrets, nigh-herons, ducks and sandpiper and they did not fly close 
enough to my chum line for me to feel the air from their wingbeats.  I know why 
you and Dianne follow me around to get good birds.  What I want to know is how 
you guys know where and when I will be birding ?   :-(   I am going to start 
doubling back on you !

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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  Sent: Friday, August 19, 2005 4:05 PM
  Subject: Re: [Bristol-Birds] Black Tern at South Holston Lake


  Hey Wallace,
       Dianne Draper and I were at Musick's about an hour after you were there. 
 We saw the 3 Black Terns, plus a Caspian Tern (both TN & VA).  Also, there 
were a total of 4 Great Egrets, 6 Black-crowned Night-Herons, a Green Heron, 2 
Wood Ducks, and a Spotted Sandpiper (all TN).  You must have been chumming !-)  
All we had to do was pull up a chair for what I like to call the Evening Show 
at Musick's.
  Don Holt
  Johnson City, TN
   
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Wallace Coffey <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
  To: Bristol-birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; TN-birds 
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  Sent: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 20:00:31 -0400
  Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Black Tern at South Holston Lake


  Musick's Campground
  South Holston Lake
  along stateline Sullivan Co., TN  & Washington Co., VA
  18 August 2005

  Black Tern - 3 (in both states) - first area 2005 fall record for species.

  At Musick's Campground area (Sullivan Co., TN):

  Double-crested Cormorant - 1
  Great Egret - 1
  Great Blue Heron -1
  Mallard - 55
  Killdeer - 1
  Yellow Warbler - 1

  Let's go birding.....

  Wallace Coffey
  Bristol, TN