8 SEP 04 Musick's Lakeside Campground Sullivan Co., TN . Just before 5:00 PM this evening I witnessed 14 - RED KNOT and 14 - Black-bellied Plover fly into Musick's Campground point on South Holston Lake near Bristol. Tom McNiel and his J.T. McNiel joined me as I was still trying to work out what the gray birds were with the Plovers. Tom and I eventually and cautiously agreed that similar species were sufficiently eliminated leaving the Red Knot as our conclusion for the identification of the gray birds. Eric Smith joined us and independently concluded the same. Wallace Coffey arrived shortly thereafter and carefully worked through the identification process himself before landing on the same identification. Wallace initiated the call the list and an impromptu field trip ensued. The following folks responded to the call out: Ron Harrington, Mary Erwin, Judy Roach, Bill Grigsby, Dave Worley, Larry McDaniel, Rick Knight, Bryan Stevens, Howard Langridge, and Mike Poe. Unfortunately the Red Knots and Black-bellied Plovers departed before anyone else arrived. Excited peaked again, however, with the arrival of a single WHIMBREL which stayed around for all to have a good look. Just as the excitement level tapered off Rick Knight shouted out for the crowd to get on a passing bird he identified as a SOOTY TERN ! Other birds of note include: Semipalmated Plover -1 Semipalmated Sandpiper - 1 Spotted Sandpiper - 4 Western Sandpiper - 1 Black Tern - 9 Caspian Tern - 3 Common Tern - 8 Forster's Tern - 1 '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-****