FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] The 1948 Kingsport CBC participants

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

KINGSPORT, Tenn. (Area was a circle of 15 miles diameter, with center
at Pactolus school, four miles S.E. of Kingsport. Area includes Bay's
Mountain, and confluence of North and South forks of Holston River;
open fields, 35%; woodlands, 25%; river, 30%; city, 10%). - Jan. 2, 1949;
6:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Cloudy in a.m., partly cloudy in p.m.; no wind;
temp. 25 to 34, no snow. Nineteen observers in twelve parties. Total hours
84; total miles 86 (23 on foot, 63 by car). 49 species, approximately 2557
individuals. Miss Ruth Dunn, Thomas W. Finucane, Lee R. Herndon,
William and Hal and Mr. and Mrs. L. W. A. Meyer, Miss Ethel Peerson,
Elinor Lee and Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Pugh, Robert Scoggin, Robert and
Mrs. Robert Switzer, Albert Wilkes, Mr. and Mrs. Howard S. Young.
(Kingsport Chapter, T. 0. S.).

NOTE:  This count was held almost 20 years before the creation of
Bays Mountain Park and Bays Mountain Nature Center.