8/23/2004 Musick's Campground South Holston Lake, VA 1645 - 1745 TN side: 1 Great Blue Heron 4 Turkey Vultures 1 Red-tailed Hawk 13 American Goldfinches - crossed to VA side VA side: 3 Green Herons 5 Turkey Vultures 47 Mallards - 17 males in eclipse plumage, 30 females 1 Northern Harrier - female 1 Spotted Sandpiper - basic (non-breeding) plumage 4 Mourning Doves 1 Eastern Phoebe - singing 7 American Crows 5 Barn Swallows 2 Carolina Chickadees 1 House Wren 1 Sleepy Orange 1 Red-spotted Purple 1 Leonard's Skipper The Northern Harrier was soaring very high over a large field. Then it parachuted straight down, without retracting its wings at all - until at roughly 3 meters (20 ft.) above the grass, it dove to the ground, apparently seizing a small prey item. I, also, had a pleasant encounter with Virgil "Lightning" Carr (and Bear, the dog). He gifted me with roughly 10 lbs. of his tomato crop, including some fine yellow ones. John R. Hay, III Kingsport, 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-****