On a trip to the Outer Banks & vicinity (North Carolina) on 4 -7 Jan., I saw several interesting birds,including (in part): Manx Shearwater - 1 (seen from the beach at Nags Head !!) N. Gannet - dozens Snow Goose & Tundra Swan - hundreds Brant - 4 Com. Eider - 1, imm. male Rough-legged Hawk - 1 (Alligator River NWR, on the mainland) Purple Sandpiper - 3 Franklin's Gull - 1 (a "stake-out") Lesser Black-backed Gull - 4 Short-eared Owl - 2 (also at Alligator River) Snow Bunting - 1 just over 100 species total. Nice way to start the year. ################### 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-****