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Sun., Dec. 01, 2002
Musick's Campground,
Weir Dams and South Holston Dam,
South Holston Lake, Sullivan Co., TN

     I heard a Sandhill Crane call, three times within a minute or so, around 
3 pm this afternoon while birding Musick's Campground.  Between the wind and 
my multiple layers of hoods and hats, I couldn't place the direction with 
certainty.  I never saw the bird.
     Rack Cross joined me shortly thereafter.  We scoped out the lake, then 
walked the banks in search of cranes and snow buntings and leftover 
shorebirds (without luck).  The following birds were found at Musick's:

Horned Grebe (~15), Pied-billed Grebe (~5), Common Loon (~5), Great Blue 
Heron (1), Bufflehead (13), Cooper's Hawk (1), Red-tailed Hawk (1), Osprey 
(1), Sandhill Crane (1 heard), Kildeer (1), Bonaparte's Gull (~30?), 
Ring-billed Gull (~60?), Belted Kingfisher (1), Northern Flicker (1), 
American Crow (~8), Eastern Bluebird (2)

     Earlier, from about noon to 2 pm, I birded at the Weir Dams and South 
Holston Dam and found the following:
     Weir Dams (mainly at the head of Osceola Island) - 
many Bufflehead, a few Ring-necked Duck (males and females), a few Lesser 
Scaup (males and females), a few Greater Scaup (females only), Mallards 
(twice seen with fish and being pursued by Gulls), Ring-billed Gulls

     South Holston Dam and the lake - 
300+ Ring-billed Gulls, about a dozen Bufflehead, and a Common Raven

     The beaver pond on S. Holston Dam Road - 
one male Green-winged Teal among about a dozen Mallards, a Red-tailed Hawk 
and an Eastern Phoebe

Don Holt
910 Smalling Rd.
Johnson City, TN
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