Birders, Today (29th) Wallace Coffey, Janice Martin, Fred Martin, Bob Quillen, and Chris O'Bryan were the attendants of the Area Lakes Bristol Bird Club Field Trip. We spotted many species of bird in many places, Results (in order), Middlebrook Lake, Hooded Merganser~4 Mallard- 200+ Ring-billed Gull~1 Weir Dam, South Holston Lake, American Wigeon~2 Bufflehead~41 Mallard- 20+ Ring-necked Duck~2 Musicks Campground, South Holston Lake, Herring Gull~1 Pied-billed Grebe~2 Pine Siskin~12 Ring-billed Gull-150+ Washington County Park, South Holston Lake, American Wigeon~10 Bonaparte's Gull-20+ (some 1st winter Gulls) Bufflehead~3 Canvasback~1 Great-blue Heron~1 Green-winged Teal~6 Northern Pintail Duck~1 Ring-billed Gull-10+ Green Spring Pond, Washington County, Va, Mallard~10 Ring-necked Duck~5 Creeper Trail Head Pond, Washington County, VA, Mallard~10 Sharp-shinned Hawk~1 Clear Creek Lake, Bristol, Va, Black-crowned Night-Heron~4 Bufflehead~5 Canada Geese-100+ Mallard~10 Red-tail Hawk~2 Great Birding and fellowship! Happy Birding!!!! Christopher O'Bryan Shady Valley, TN ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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-****