4 Dec. 2005 South Holston Lake (dam & Musick's) Sullivan Co. PACIFIC LOON - 1 - at Musick's Com. Loon - 130 Pied-billed Grebe - 18 Horned Grebe - 5 Eared Grebe - 10 Com. Goldeneye - 1 Red-br. Merganser - 6 Ruddy Duck - 6 Bald Eagle - 1 ad & 1 im Bonaparte's Gull - 70 Ring-billed Gull - 40 at the weir: Am. Wigeon - 10 Green-wg. Teal - 1 Ring-nk. Duck - 15 Lsr. Scaup - 1 Bufflehead - 170 at Middlebrook Lake: Green-wg. Teal - 6 Bufflehead - 1 Com. Goldeneye - 1 Hooded Merganser - 242 Ring-billed Gull - 28 A nice comparison of Pacific Loon to numerous Com. Loons was had at Musick's Campground. About a dozen birders gathered before dusk. This is the first Pacific Loon for northeast Tenn. and, to my recollection, the first for east Tenn. ################### 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-****