Area Birders: Today I had 43 Red-breasted Mergansers near "point 8" on South Holston Lake across from the dam in Sullivan Co. Earlier I had found a small flock of Hooded Mergansers at Middlebrook Lake in Bristol Tennessee. Linda Northrop, Jo Anne Routledge and Larry Routledge (from Greeneville) counted the Middlebrook birds sometime after I had been there and later told me they had 51 Hooded Mergansers. I birded briefly with them at the Weir Dam. It was very good to see Linda Northrop out birding on her birthday ! It is the first time she has been in the field since her husband passed away in September. We wish her good birding. Let's go birding.... Wallace Coffey Bristol, TN ************************************************* 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 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 wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (423)764-****