Mendota update for 9/18/02: We had another good day at the Mendota Fire Tower. Birders including Bob Riggs, Bob Quillen, Tom Edwards, Marion Finucane, George Larkins, Barbara and Tom Zollman, Sharon and Dennis Barrett, Carl Bachman, and Maynard Hawkins were on hand for a relatively steady flow of Broad-winged Hawks, a large number of Ospreys, a male Northern Harrier, and an adult Bald Eagle. Fred Alsop and his students from ETSU also paid us a brief visit late in the day. Here are the numbers for this week plus the totals year-to-date which include last week: Species 9/16 9/17 9/18 9/19 YTD OS 2 3 3 9 19 BE - 1 - 1 2 NH - 1 - 1 2 SS 5 1 4 1 14 CH - 1 2 2 7 BW 44 300 257 447 1173 GE - - - - 1 PG - 2 - - 2 Ron Harrington Bristol, VA ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Greeneville TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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 jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423)764-3958