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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

16 Aug 2007
Musick's Campground 
South Holston Lake
Sullivan Co., TN

    Black Tern 1 (first fall record of year for Northeast Tennessee)
    Great Blue Heron 1

Brown's Cove
South Holston Lake
Washington Co, VA

Brown's dairy farm (intersection Lake Rd. & Bowman Rd.) near Camp Sequoyah.
Mudflats wet and extensive. Lake level falling rapidly -- 

Thur 16 Aug  12 noon =  1710.07 feet elevation
Thur   9 Aug    6 pm     = 1711.60 feet 

    Pectoral Sandpiper 4
    Spotted Sandpiper  1
    Great Blue Heron    1

Paddle Creek Ponds
near South Fork Holston River
Sullivan Co., TN

    Semipalmated Sandpiper 1
    Spotted Sandpiper 1
    Green Heron 2
    Wood Duck  15
    Killdeer  42
    Great Blue Heron 1
    Mute Swan 1

Of note at Paddle Creek is a larger number of white feathers of all sizes, 
including
what appears to be primaries from the wing of what must have been a large bird.
My best guess is that a Great Egret bit the dust along the shoreline on the 
upper
end of the lower pond.  The only other large, white bird frequenting the ponds 
is
the swan which is accounted for in this report.  The carcass appears to be 
gone.  

Let's go birding......

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN