Hi Roger, This kind of stuff does not bother me coming from Wallace. Like a typical newspaper reporter he printed what he wanted with total disregard for the truth. Sorry for the late reply but I have been out of town for a few days. Bob _____ From: Roger Mayhorn [mailto:rmayhorn@xxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Monday, March 30, 2009 11:46 PM To: Bob Riggs Subject: Fw: [Bristol-Birds] SHL Bald Eagle mystery discovers another chapter for history. Bob, Take a look at what Wallace posted this morning. Following in another message is my reply to him. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: Wallace Coffey <mailto:jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx> To: Bristol-birds <mailto:bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 9:22 PM Subject: [Bristol-Birds] SHL Bald Eagle mystery discovers another chapter for history. Members of the Russell County Bird Club listened with amazement while area birders told their stories as the intriguing mystery about the Bald Eagle nest at South Holston Lake continued to be revealed. It has come in bits and pieces over the past month. The history of the nest is being written one chapter at a time. The club gathered Sunday to see the nest. Jean Montgomery (left), who says she tried in vain to get others to help her verify the nest last June, is still puzzled as to why she was not given credibility when she told other birders. "Last summer, I told Bob Riggs I believed I had found an eagle's nest here," she said. "I also told Roger Mayhorn." Montgomery, an active and long-time member of the Russell County club, was dismayed. She says no one tried to help her. None of them ever came to look, as far as she has known. "No one believed me." Sunday, members of the club gathered at the lake house of Lebanon residents Sandy and Bill Lawson. Across the lake they had a show worth writing home about. Two majestic eagles were very active about the nest. The birds stood on the nest, flew about it, evidently brooded young eaglets and one of the adults was chased by a Peregrine Falcon. It seems evident that only an extremely small number of people knew anything about this eagle nest during the past year. It was not known to the majority of the Russell County Bird Club members. Mayhorn, of Buchanan County, is a leader of that county's bird club and a Southwest Virginia regional editor of Virginia Birds, a quarterly journal of ornithological sightings published by the Virginia Society of Ornithology. His position is to accumulate bird sightings from regional birders and compile and publish the records in the VSO journal. It is the cooperation and contributions of sightings by birders that make it possible for VSO to publish the journal. The reports, like all such ornithological records, depend heavily upon field collaboration by as many observers as can be made available. Riggs, a state Conservation Police Officer, previously called game wardens, is an education specialist with the Virginia Dept. of Game and Inland Fisheries (VDGIF), working out of Marion. He is the founder of the Russell County Bird Club. The photo at the left was taken Sunday afternoon from the Lawson's lake house window and shows an adult eagle apparently brooding young in the nest while a light rain fell in the area and the tree rocked gently in the wind. Members of the Russell County Bird Club who attended the outing were: Carolyn Coffey, Wallace Coffey, Laverne Hunter, Tom Hunter, Bill Lawson, Sandy Lawson, Jean Montgomery, Samantha Montgomery, Dave Worley and Diana Worley. Let's go birding . . . . Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN