Bristol Area Birders: Today (11/21) Bert Hale discovered the Middlebrook Lake Ross's Goose grazing in a field 4.6 miles southwest of the impoundment. This is the first time=20 the bird has been located feeding away from the shoreline of the lake. I joined him there about 9:30 a.m. to help check and see if it appears to be the bird which has been at Middlebrook -- a Ross's X Lesser Snow Goose hybrid. It has what appears to be the typical bill of a Ross's and the influnece of a Snow Goose's grining patch. The bird was feeding in the vicinity of the Luthern Church located on Weaver Pike at the intersections of Bullock's Hollow Road and Grandor Road. If you have a GPS unit you can locate it at the following coordinates: 36=B0 31' 56"N, 82=B0 10' 17"W You may click on the following URL to see the exact location on a topo map of Bristol and, if you wish, in the upper left hand corner of the map go to 1:25,000 for a more detailed view:=20 http://topozone.com/map.asp?z=3D17&n=3D4043477&e=3D395102&s=3D200&u=3D2 Let's go birding...... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN ************************************************* 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, 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