On Tuesday, 11/25/08, Just before dark, Michele Sparks and I spent about twenty minutes checking out the beaver pond at Whitetop Creek Park in Bristol, TN. Michele spotted a beaver swimming across the pond. A kingfisher rattled and then flew onto a nearby branch. A siskin called. A snipe called and flew over the pond. I whistled a little and a gray morph sreech-owl responded. It called a few times and then landed on an exposed branch providing us wonderful looks. It was twenty minutes well spent. Larry McDaniel _________________________________________________________________ Windows Live Hotmail now works up to 70% faster. http://windowslive.com/Explore/Hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_faster_112008