Starting birding in Sullivan county TN at Ft. Patrick Henry Dam this morning: Night Herons (2) (+life list) Blue Herons (21) Red Tail Hawk(2) Moved on to Hawkins County TN Black vultures (6) Killdeer (14) Meadowlark(18) American Kestral (7) Red Tail Hawk (2) Robins (50) Song sparrow (50+) Then to Green County TN Loggerhead Shrike (3)(+life list) Common Snipe (1)(+life list) Meadowlarks (10) American Kestral (23) Red Winged blackbirds (60+) Red Tail Hawks (6) Killdeer (12) What a great day! Started with a trip to the Heronry at Ft. Patrick Henry Dam. Counted 37 nests. Got my first ever Night Herons. The blue herons were as thick as mosquitoes. Moved on up Goshen valley, and across some Black vultures that were not intimidated by my presence. Red Tail Hawks circled the valley. American Kestrels lined our trek. Meadowlarks were singing from the fence posts. Robins and sparrows on every corner. On to Baileyton and back down the mountain. Ran across a logging operation using a helicopter to remove the logs from the forest! Took many new roads and found loggerhead shrikes (lifelist) watching ponds of freshly emerged peepers. Kestrels were hovering mid air to keep an eye on the fields below. I stopped in the middle of the small country road to grab some photo's of the Killdeer. On the passenger side of my car was a small pond. Setting in the shallow water was what I thought to be a woodcock. I check of the guide reveled it was a common snipe. Once again a entry for my lifelist. Finally while coming back down the road from Chimney top I encountered a group of ostrich crossing the road. A pretty unusual end to great day. Don Carrier Bristol, Tennessee ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST Bristol Birds Net Photo Gallery located at: http://f2.pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/jwcoffeyy/album?.dir=/efd5 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-****