16 Aug 2007 Musick's Campground South Holston Lake Sullivan Co., TN Black Tern 1 (first fall record of year for Northeast Tennessee) Great Blue Heron 1 Brown's Cove South Holston Lake Washington Co, VA Brown's dairy farm (intersection Lake Rd. & Bowman Rd.) near Camp Sequoyah. Mudflats wet and extensive. Lake level falling rapidly -- Thur 16 Aug 12 noon = 1710.07 feet elevation Thur 9 Aug 6 pm = 1711.60 feet Pectoral Sandpiper 4 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Great Blue Heron 1 Paddle Creek Ponds near South Fork Holston River Sullivan Co., TN Semipalmated Sandpiper 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Green Heron 2 Wood Duck 15 Killdeer 42 Great Blue Heron 1 Mute Swan 1 Of note at Paddle Creek is a larger number of white feathers of all sizes, including what appears to be primaries from the wing of what must have been a large bird. My best guess is that a Great Egret bit the dust along the shoreline on the upper end of the lower pond. The only other large, white bird frequenting the ponds is the swan which is accounted for in this report. The carcass appears to be gone. Let's go birding...... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN