Sunday, August 3, 2003, the Second Annual Elizabethton Butterfly Count will be held, meeting at 9 am at the Visitor's Center of Sycamore Shoals State Historic Area in Elizabethton, TN. We will cover the Park and surrounding area in the morning, breaking for lunch, and meeting new arrivals during the lunch hour at the Sycamore Shoals Visitor Center. At around 1 pm we will carpool to Holston Mountain, stopping at various sites as we drive up Panhandle Road to the top. If there are enough participants, we may break into smaller groups to cover other areas. Lowland habitats include woodland, riparian zone, and open weedy fields around Sycamore Shoals, promising a good variety of butterflies. Holston Mountain offers pastureland at the bottom and various woodland types with occasional powerline clearings as we ascend the mountain. This has been a good place to see Diana Fritillaries (and some beautiful wildflower displays). If anyone from the area is interested in counting in other places nearby, our count circle is nearly the same as that used on the Elizabethton Christmas Bird Count. Call me if you want to count somewhere different than the main group, or if you want to be a "garden watcher" who counts only in their own backyard. Don Holt (423) 926-0865 dnldhlt@xxxxxxx Johnson City, TN ************************************************* 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-****