11 MAY 04 Great Lakes Pond (across from Elizabethton Municipal Airport) HWY 91 and Heather Lane near Milligan College both in Carter Co., TN . Kami and Sam Cross and me followed a tip from Tom McNeil on some shorebirds at the Great Lakes Pond off HWY 91 in Elizabethton this evening. Our tally included: Least Sandpipers - 5 Solitary Sandpiper - 1 Spotted Sandpiper - 2 missing our targeted Semipalmated Sandpiper . From there we traveled to Heather Lane near Milligan College and just past 9 PM we heard a serenade of Chuck-will's-widow calls. There were at least two different calling birds as they had us surrounded. Dr. Fred Alsop had told about the birds calling in this area. 'Til we bird again Rack Cross Blountville, TN ************************************************* 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-****