Hello everybody - Another good day was had by all at Mendota Hawk tower on the border of Washington County and Russell County, VA. We were 12 shy of 1000 Broad-wing Hawks today and had 9 other birds of prey. A lot of other good birds seen as well. Complete list after the people who helped today. 21 people were present at different times of the day, this list was: Ken Turner - Bluff City, TN Tom Hunter - Lebanon, VA Larry McDaniel - Johnson City, TN Kevin and Gracie (his daughter) Pierce - Kingsport, TN Ed Morgan - Abingdon, VA Gabrielle Zeiger - Kingsport, TN George Larkin - Church Hill, TN Don and Kathy Starrette - Kingsport, TN Kirk Balcome - Abingdon, VA Tom and Kathyrn Kerns - Kingsport, TN Kenneth and Lori Hopkins - Bristol, VA Mitchell and Brandon Hopkins - Bristol, VA Greg Runyan - Walnut Grove, VA Sally Fowler - Walnut Grove, VA Don Hombrock - Atlanta, GA Rob Biller - Elizabethton, TN 9/21/08 Mendota Hawk Watch Broad-winged Hawks - 988 Cedar Waxwings - small group flyby unknown EMPID Red-headed Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker American Kestrel Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk Northern Harrier 3 Red-tailed Hawk Bald Eagle Osprey 2 Cooper's Hawk 3 Barred Owl (4:37pm) Yellow-rumped Warbler Tennessee Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler Nashville Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Red-breasted Nuthatch White-breasted Nuthatch Hour by Hour breakdown: 8-9 Yellow-rumped Warbler 9-10 Broad-winged Hawks 10 Cedar Waxwings 10-11 Broad-winged Hawks 99 Unknown EMPID Tennessee Warbler 2 Black-throated Green Warbler 11-12 Broad-winged Hawks 598 Red-shouldered Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk 12-1 Broad-winged Hawks 166 Northern Harrier Red-tailed Hawk 1-2 Broad-winged Hawks 100 Bald Eagle (full adult) Northern Harrier Sharp-shinned Hawk Osprey 2-3 Broad-winged Hawks 9 Northern Harrier Osprey 3-4 Broad-winged Hawks 3 Cooper's Hawk Sharp-shinned Hawk 4-5 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Barred Owl (calling from Russell County at 4:37) 5-6 Broad-winged Hawks 2 Cooper's Hawk 2 6-6:30 Broad-winged Hawks 0 Nashville Warbler Black-throated Warbler -- Rob Biller Elizabethton, TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org 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. -------------------------------------------------- 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 wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****