Spent an hour this morning walking around both ponds at Phipps Bend in Hawkins County. Partial list of birds: American Kestrel (1) Common Raven (1 - first encounter here in many months) Great Egret (32) Cattle Egret (1) Great Blue Heron (2) Little Blue Heron (2) Black-crowned Night Heron (1 - small pond) Green Heron (1) Killdeer (12) Lesser Yellowlegs (1) small unidentified sandpipers (6 at small pond..didn't have a scope) Belted Kingfisher (4) Yellow-billed Cuckoo (1) White-eyed Vireo (1 singing) Common Yellowthroat Rick Phillips -- Rick Phillips Lecturer Biological Sciences East Tennessee State University