05 January 2014 Johnson Co., TN Highway 421 (Iron Mountain) While participating in the Shady Valley/Mountain City Christmas Count yesterday, David Kirschke, Cathy Myers, and I had at least four Red Crossbills on the Mountain City side of Iron Mountain. We were able to see four birds together, but we heard crossbills at several points up the mountain (we just couldn't establish if these were different birds or the same ones flying over a large area). In addition: On the way home, we had a raft of 400+ Ring-billed Gulls on Watauga Lake (Roan Creek area). -- Thomas S. McNeil Elizabethton, TN