Mon. 29 MAR 2004 Dutch Bottoms, Douglas Lake, Cocke Co., TN D. Holt While viewing the six American White Pelicans at Dutch Bottoms, I was also observing a couple of flocks of Lesser Scaup when I noticed two noticeably different ducks that were nearby but independent of the flock. A closer look revealed two Surf Scoters. The male showed a white patch on the back of the head, and white and orange on the bill. The female was dark, and so far away that I could barely, if at all, make out any white on the head. Their wedge shaped heads/bills and their rakishly held tails made them easy to discern from the scaups. They were on the far side of the lake just downstream of the two silos where the Ospreys are nesting, viewed from the pulloff near the intersection of Rankin Hill Rd. and Hwy 25E. I observed them for about a half hour through a Meade ETX125 at powers from about 60X to over 150X. The Lesser Scaups were in two flocks of 18 and 20. There were dozens of Double-crested Cormorants in the vicinity, including several sharing driftwood perches with the American White Pelicans. Don Holt Johnson City, TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****