Bristol Birders and Chris O'Bryan: Your Purple Finch record is a very good find for Shady Valley. We spend years and years birding in the valley and winter and you pop right up with a Purple Finch in winter. There has been no doubt about the species -----Original Message----- From: chris j obryan <snakeboy85@xxxxxxxx> To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thursday, December 12, 2002 11:18 AM Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Purple-Finch at feeder! > >Fellow birders: > This Morning (12 Dec. 2002) I had a Beautiful beautiful >Purple-Finch at my Feeder in Shady Valley, Johnson county,Tn. >Status: > Occasional Fall and spring Transient. Accidental winter! >There is only one Recard in winter Here in Shady and that was made by >Todd Eastin > on the 16, Jan. 1973! ( All this Status stuff came from The book, Bird >Study In Shady Valley TN. 1934-1999 By Wallace coffey and John L. >Shumate, Jr. > > Happy Birding!!! > Christopher O'Bryan > Shady Valley TN > >________________________________________________________________ >Sign Up for Juno Platinum Internet Access Today >Only $9.95 per month! >Visit www.juno.com >************************************************* > BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST > >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. It serves the Russell County >Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Chapter, Blue Ridge >Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County >Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club >and Cumberland Nature Club. >-------------------------------------------------- >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 > jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx > (423)764-3958 > > ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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 jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423)764-3958