Cocke county, 4/13/13, 4-7PM; by canoe Douglas Lake elevation: 983.4 ft, up 3 ft in the past 3 days, flooding most of the Rankin embayment Partial list: Snow Goose image- http://www.pbase.com/image/149669406/original Wood duck (8), & more to come - TWRA has put up dozens of new nestboxes. Blue-winged Teal (120) N. Shoveler (4) Pied-billed Grebe (2) Double-cr. Cormorant (18) Great Blue Heron (40+, 2 heronries: south of Rankin Bridge & west of Leadvale Trestle) Green Heron Osprey (8) Bald Eagle (5 juv.) Red-shouldered Hawk Am. Coot (2) Killdeer (4) Gr. Yellowlegs (14) Lesser Yellowlegs (28) Solitary Sandpiper Least Sandpiper (25) Wilson's Snipe Eastern Wood-Peewee Eastern Kingbird (FOS) Tree Swallow Cliff Swallow Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (6) Am. Pipit (10) Prothonotary Warbler (FOS) Red-winged Blackbird (FOS) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST MENDOTA HAWK MIGRATION DAILY AND SEASON TOTALS CAN BE FOLLOWED DAILY ON THE HAWK MIGRATION ASSOC. SITE http://hawkcount.org/month_summary.php?rsitep6&PHPSESSID²eb5deb1ae5a23e55dcf30171c5ba85 Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org 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 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-****