09May2012 Carter County - Elizabethton, TN Hart Road - North Pond This afternoon, t here were quite a number of shorebirds on the small pond at the north end of Hart Road in Elizabethton, TN. This pond looks like a good one to keep an eye on! Spotted Sandpiper (3) Solitary Sandpiper (10) Lesser Yellowlegs (2) Semipalmated Sandpiper (2) Least Sandpiper (19) Directions to Hart Road from Elizabethton: - Take Old Bristol Highway (SR37) at McDonalds (going north) - Cross Watauga River and turn left on Watauga Road - In about a mile take Sycamore Shoals Drive (on left) - Just past the Elizabethton Animal Shelter, turn right onto Hart Road (t he pond is on the right, near the end of Hart Road and the intersection with Smalling Road) * Caution: traffic usually comes down the hill (behind you) "way too fast "!!! -- Thomas S. McNeil Roan Mountain, TN