Area Birders: The following weather information was lifted from a message by Paul Lehman in New Jersey who usually has a good handle on weather and birding. He says a pronounced cold front is forecast to have arrived by this weekend, with much colder temps and NW winds on Saturday into Sunday. This follows the prolonged warm spell with continuous southerly flow of some sort that many of us have been having the past week. So get out and check your rivers, lakes, and ponds when the cold air and NW winds arrive! Also, given the prolonged mild period with southerly flow, there has very likely been a "penned up" migration of regular short-distance passerine migrants, owls, and hawks, so the weekend should be good for those as well. Make your plans to be in the field this weekend and get all over some good birding. Let's go birding..... Wallace Coffey Bristol ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST 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. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon TOS Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- 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-****