This afternoon (9-17) at Musick's Campground on South Holston Lake, in northeast Tenn, the following were observed: Laughing Gull - 2 Com. Tern - 1 Black-bellied Plover - 4 Stilt Sandpiper - 1 Sanderling - 1 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 5 Least Sandpiper - 1 Spotted Sandpiper - 2 Eared Grebe - 3 Great Egret - 2 Osprey - 1 Also seen briefly was a largish brown tern that probably was an immature Sooty Tern. Observers were: Tom McNeil & son J.T. Rack Cross Mike Poe & myself ################### Rick Knight Johnson City, TN rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************* 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-****