[Bristol-Birds] Mute Swans reported over region

Glen Eller's report today (Jan 12) of a Mute Swan just below Boone Dam in 
Sullivan County is one among several being seen by birders over the region 
this winter.  

David Hunt also had a Mute Swan, Mar 16, 2008, at the same location as 
the one seen by Glen Eller.   Judy Roach had one Feb 28,  2007 near the
Warrior Path State Park marina on Ft. Patrick Henry Lake.   These 
observations are possibly the same free-flying bird in that area.

Today (Jan 12), there were two Mute Swans at Middlebrook Lake in Bristol 
Tennessee where our party had one on the Bristol Christmas Bird Count on 
Sun. Dec. 28.

Bert Hale showed us a photo on that same day (Dec 28) of a Mute Swan he and 
his wife Loraine had seen and photographed that day at Bluff City on Boone 
Lake.  
We've had a free-flying Mute Swan moving between Webb Bridge on the South 
Fork Holston River and Paddle Creek Pond, this year --  both sites not far
upstream from Bluff City in Sullivan Co.

During the week before Christmas, a Mute Swan was seen flying into the mouth 
of Big Dry Run Creek embayment of Watauga Lake just north of Buntontown Rd. 
bridge.  It was carefully identified by Richard Walker of Bristol TN and C. W. 
Frye 
of Chilhowie, Va.  This may be the first Johnson Co. record for the species.

On Friday, Jan 9, Chris O'Bryan and I had one at a pond along Steele Creek 
just off TN Rt. 126 in Sullivan Co., TN.  This is a location where the species 
has
been found for several years.

Let's go birding . . . .

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

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