While dining outdoors on the deck of a restaurant on the Kingsport riverfront this evening, my friends and I were entertained by several birds. A Canada goose couple supervised their 5 chicks swimming in "the kiddie pool", a calm pool beside the swiftly flowing river. Several Double Crested Cormorants flew downriver toward their roost. ( I have seen them arrayed in sycamores on the island near the Netherland Inn recently.) A Spotted Sandpiper dropped in to check the shoreline. A male Wilson's Warbler appeared in the top of a sycamore near the restaurant. Knight's Birds of East Tennessee gives April 15 as the early arrival date for the Wilson's, so this one was only a day late. On the way home about 8pm, I took some friends to view the "owl cliffs" on Riverport Rd. The young Great Horned Owl was out of the nest, and was perched on a limb to the right of the nest hole. Mary Erwin Kingsport ************************************************* 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 Chapter 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 jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423)764-3958