Area Birders, Michelle, Chazzy and I spent the day driving to various water holes in SW Virginia and UE Tenn looking for water birds. We found a few and managed to stay dry most of the day. Below is a list of the places we stopped and what we found there. Ed and Michelle Talbott Grundy, VA Stuart's Pond - Russell Co. Canada Goose - 7 Green-winged Teal - 1 Gadwall - 3 Mud Hole, Elk Garden, Russell Co. Wood Duck - 5 Mallard - 2 White-crowned and White-throated Sparrows Hidden Valley Lake Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Common Loon - 1 Mallard - 4 Ring-necked Duck - 1 Ponds on Rt. 19 at Abingdon American Coot - 2 Canada Goose - 1 Mallard - 2 Musick's Campground Red-breasted Mergansers - 10 Common Loon - 16 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Lesser Yellowlegs - 1 Tree Swallows - many Cliff Swallow - 1 Bonaparte's Gulls - 12 [also over 20 Bonies at Rt. 421 bridge in one raft with a few Ring-billed thrown in for a size comparison) Ringed-billed Gull - 100+ Mallard - 2 Small Farm Pond just up road from Musick's towards Abingdon Northern Shoveler - 5 Mallard - 2 Weir Dam Blue-winged Teal - 5 Green-winged Teal 2 Bufflehead - 31 Greater Scaup - 3 (my first ever west of the New River) Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Canada Goose - 2 Mallard - 3 Saltville, VA Ponds Mallard - 19 Ring-necked Duck - 14 Lesser Scaup - 4 Canada Goose - 3 American Coot - 3 Blue-winged Teal - 2 NRW and Tree Swallows - many Road to Laurel Bed Lake was closed - not sure why. ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com