Area and Tennessee Birders, Saturday, February 10, 2007 Today - Larry McDaniel, Jeremy Stout, Don Holt, and myself birded select areas of Washington County and Sulivan County. At most water locations there were Mallards which are not included in the listing below. Washington County: Pond off Hwy 75 (1.4 miles from 11E) [James Brooks and company were at our morning meeting place meeting to go to Hiwassee Refuge. They followed us over to this location). Greater-white Fronted Goose 1 Snow Geese 3 (2 Blue Morph, 1 [immature] White Morph Canada Geese ++ Smithdale Blvd Eurasion-collared Dove 1 Keebler Road Horned Larks (flock flying) Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawks 2 (on drive to Keebler Road) Kestrel Stockton Road Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Bush Hog Pond (on the newly names Precision Blvd) Green-winged Teal 4+ Blue-winged Teal 1 Wilson's Snipe 2 Ruddy Duck 1 After lunch Larry, Don, and myself travelled to Kingsport. Sullivan County: Netherland Inn Drive (at Riverfront Restraurant) On River(upstream): Northen Pintail 3 On River (downstream) Lesser Scaup 5 Great Blue Heron 2 On near bank right side of restraurant: Spotted Sandpipier 1 After I got back to my car I stopped over at Winged-Deer Park and found the Ross' Goose very close and had a great look. It was on the bank at the end of the paved trail leading from the Winged-Deer Park Festival Parking with Canada Geese. I was about ~300 feet away at one point. This goose made me have a 4 goose day. Not bad for NE Tennessee on one day. Misses: Sandhill Cranes - Picken's Bridge/Crouch Rd (checked at 12:30 & 3:30) Peregrine Falcon - Keebler Rd (checked at 9:30 & 10:30) -- Rob Biller Elizabethton, TN ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 Be sure and visit the Bristol Bird Club website at: http://bristolbirdclub.org 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-****