The following is the list of birds recorded by Larry McDaniel and Wallace Coffey while participating in Saturday's Lee R. Herndon TOS Chapter spring count. Our area was Shady Valley, Holston Mountain, South Fork Holston River to Bluff City, South Holston Lake and Musick's Campground, Weir Dam, Middlebrook Lake in Bristol, TN. Common Loon 4 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Doubled-crested Cormorant 86 (Musick's) Great Blue Heron 2 Green Heron 3 Canada Goose 14 Wood Duck 3 Mallard 37 Blue-winged Teal 3 Bufflehead 2 (Weir Dam) Red-breasted Merganser 10 (Musick's) Black Vulture 5 Turkey Vulture 12 Osprey 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 1 Red-shouldred Hawk 1 (near Shelly's Chicken House U.S. 421) Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 3 American Kestrel 1 Ruffed Grouse 1 Wild Turkey 1 American Coot 3 (Middlebrook Lake) Killdeer 6 Solitary Sandpiper 3 (most Middlebrook Lake) Spotted Sandpiper 9 (most Middlebrook Lake) Common Snipe 2 Bonaparte's Gull 36 (Musick's) Ring-billed Gull 134 Caspian Tern 4 (Musick's) Rock Pigeon 12 Mourning Dove 17 Chimney Swift 3 Belted Kingfisher 2 Red-bellied Woodpekcer 2 Downy Woodpecker 5 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Northern Flicker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 4 Eastern Phoebe 12 Eastern Kingbird 3 Purple Martin 8 Tree Swallow 11 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 13 Cliff Swallow 320 (Weir Dam) Barn Swallow 11 Blue Jay 29 American Crow 38 Common Raven 1 (Backbone Rock) Carolina Chickadee 9 Tufted Titmouse 12 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Carolina Wren 12 House Wren 7 Golden-crowned Kinglet 4 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Eastern Bluebird 5 Wood Thrush 14 American Robin 28 Northern Mockingbird 17 Brown Thrasher 4 Cedar Waxwing 12 European Starling 27 White-eyed Vireo 1 Solitary Vireo 13 Red-eyed Vireo 21 Tennessee Warbler 1 (Backbone Rock) Northern Parula Warbler 10 Yellow Warbler 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler 27 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Black-throated Green Warbler 31 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 (Shady Valley) Blackpoll Warbler 1 (Holston Valley) Black-and-white Warbler 8 Worm-eating Warbler 4 Ovenbird 13 Louisiana Waterthrush 9 Kentucky Warbler 1 Common Yellowthroat 3 Hooded Warbler 37 Canada Warbler 4 (Shady Valley) Scarlet Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 13 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Rufous-sided Towhee 12 Chipping Sparrow 11 Field Sparrow 6 Savannah Sparrow 2 (Shady Valley) Song Sparrow 38 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 1 Dark-eyed Junco 12 Red-winged Blackbird 27 Eastern Meadowlark 20 Common Grackle 33 Brown-headed Cowbird 7 House Finch 2 American Goldfinch 30 House Sparrow 3 Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Bristol, 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-****