Musick's Campground South Holston Lake northeast Tenn. A striking adult Sooty Tern casually flew past a group of a dozen or so birders gathered at Musick's Campground this evening (8 Sep; just after 7:00 pm). We had been present to look for shorebirds & terns reported earlier (morning & late afternoon - see my earlier post & one from Rack Cross). The Sooty Tern made one flight past us, turning & banking to show off its coal-black mantle, before vanishing. It was flying downstream toward the dam. I suspect that the chances of relocating it tomorrow will be poor. Conditions at the time of observation were overcast & drizzly, with the last remnants of Frances moving northward. I had considered the fallout of shorebirds & terns in the area to have been probable south-bound migrants simply grounded by the inclement weather. However, the Sooty Tern must have been carried north from the Gulf or Atlantic by Hurricane Frances. ################### Rick Knight Johnson City, TN rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 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 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-****