Gil Derouen and I checked a number of water areas in Carter and Sullivan Counties today. Highlights include: Carter County Watauga River and Rasar Farm Gadwall 10 Ring-necked Duck 5 Bufflehead 8 Kingfisher 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Below Siam Bridge Bald Eagle, mature 1 Kingfisher 1 above Wilbur Dam Ring-necked Duck 5 Bufflehead 100 Just below the Watauga Dam Bald Eagle, mature 1 Raven 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 1 Sullivan County Paddle Creek Great Blue Heron 1 Northern Harrier, male 1 Weir Dam Bufflehead 15 Musick's Campground Pied-billed Grebe 9 Ring-billed Gull 20 Middlebrook Lake Gadwall 2 Ring-necked Duck 18 Hooded Merganser 17 Coot 8 Ring-billed Gull 225 Kingfisher 1 Roy Knispel Johnson City, TN