[Bristol-Birds] Saturday BBC Watauga Lake Outing

From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 19:25:52 -0400
Bristol Bird Club Watauga Lake Outing
   
                        Saturday, October18, 13, 2:30 p.m.
                        
                 Hosetd by:
Bob & Ellen Parker and Charlie                    
at their lovely mountain lake home
136 Summer Hill Private Dr,
Butler, TN (near Cove Ridge Boat Dock)










This will be a wonderful, warm and scenic afternoon of birding, 
loafing, maybe some boating, visiting and enjoying one of the 
region's most beautiful mountain lakes.  

  Earlier, the Parkers invited the Bristol Bird Club and its friends to 
this special place on their lakeshore at the foot of Iron Mountain.  They have 
been anxious to once again share this special bit of heaven with BBC and 
other birders.

The activities start at 2:30 PM and will be followed by a cook-out / potluck 
feast. The Parkers are providing hot dogs and hamburgers. Bring a covered dish 
of your choice --- salad, veggies, or dessert.  If you want, you can bring some 
ice. We will need 5 bags.  We are going to "lazy away" on a Saturday afternoon 
in the Southern Blue Ridge Mountains at the lake.











If the lake level is not took low and the path to the boats not too muddy, some 
of you 
may want to become seaworthy and go for a peaceful, uncrowded ride on Watauga 
Lake with your friends and fellow birders.

You might just want to slump back and chat away the evening with a few good 
birding friends. 

If the timing and weather blesses us, some will venture in an are where some
of Northeast Tennessee's most exciting species have been 
discovered down through the years.  Greater White-fronted Goose, Red-necked 
Grebe, Little Blue Heron, Northern Goshawk, Ruddy Turnstone, Western Sandpiper, 
Buff-breasted Sandpiper and Royal Tern are just a few of the species that have 
been observed at Roan Creek.  At nearby Cove Ridge Boat Dock, Red Crossbills 
have been seen in winter.  But who knows ?  One was found in August at 
Bristol's Steele Creek Park.  Don't be somewhere else when someone else finds a 
really good bird and you just couldn't get up the energy to join us.

We had a great crowd there and lots of fellowship -- even during a light 
afternoon
drizzle while many sat under the eaves and enjoyed the birds in the wet 
vegetation.
Others simply lounged in the screened porch and enjoyed the fellowship.

        DIRECTIONS

        From Elizabethton travel U.S. 19E (U.S. 321 to Hampton, TN.  Turn 
left on U.S. 321 and TN Rt. 67 at Hampton, continuing along Watauga Lake until 
U.S. 321 bears sharp right and TN Rt. 67 continues straight towards Butler and  
       
Mountain City. At Butler turn left on to Piercetown Road just past Butler       
          
Community Park and and before the Amoco Station.  Continue past 
Butler Volunteer Fire Dept, bear right at fork in road. Drive past 
Cove Ridge Marina on left and take next left on Summer Hill Private Dr.  
The Parker's house is 4th house on right with gray siding.  House 
number is 136.


    Lake House phone 423-768-2442
    if you have further questions e-mail 
    wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
    or dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[Bristol-Birds] Saturday BBC Watauga Lake Outing

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