Rick Knight called at 2:48 p.m. today (Mon., 14 Oct 2013} to report that a Franklin's Gull has just been found by Brookie and Jean Potter at Musick's Campground on South Holston Lake in Sullivan Co., TN and Washington Co., VA. This is the first regional record for the species in Northeast Tennessee. It is the first Western Virginia record in a hundred years with the last being 22 Oct 1898 at Blacksburg., VA. Rick said there are other gulls which have just arrived. Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN