I took a quick trip today (2/15) to Hiwassee and Kingston Power Plant. At Hiwassee my wife and I saw at least 2-3000 cranes (Amazing!) but no whooper. :>( Also saw 2 redheads, 6 bufflehead, one dc cormorant and a dozen or so ring-billed gulls. About 1/2 dozen savannah sparrows were bathing in a puddle near the cranes. At Kingston, I only had about 15-20 minutes and saw little other than a breedong colony of great blue herons.....I would guess, from my distance, about 20 adults. John Moyle Kingsport P.S. Had a short-eared owl in my yard and adjacent fields in the rain on Monday. ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 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-****