My wife, Jane, and I drove across the mountain to Saltville this morning. We found the pair of Long-tailed Ducks reported earlier. This was about 9:15 this morning. They were oblivious to our presence, diving and swimming at close range to our vehicle. We watched them for perhaps 15 minutes getting great looks from many angles. We also drove north of Saltville to check on the Great Blue Heron nests along the North Fork of the Holston river. There were 7 birds on the nests this morning. Jerry ************************************************* 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-****