Enjoyed a delightful encounter with an adult Red-tailed Hawk at Middlebrook Lake in Bristol Tennessee, Wednesday. It flew to a perch on a fallen tree that was mostly under water. It slowly walked down a limb until nearly all of its body was covered with water. The big bird enjoyed a long, leisurely, splashing bath during a warm winter morning. This aroused memories of a Northern Harrier bathing at the shoreline near Musick's Campground, a dozen years or so ago. Let's go birding...... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN