Thu. 22 APR 2004 Clyde Austin 4-H Center, Greeneville, TN D. Holt Two Spotted Sandpipers, the first I've ever seen here, visited our canoeing "lake", a large pond actually. They flew up from the shore as I approached on foot with one group of kids, dodging across the pond between canoes full of kids aimlessly thrashing the water. It looked like a pinball game. I couldn't find them later in the day. I heard a Green Heron's "skyow" and looked up to see three (count 'em, 3) Green Herons flying high across the open agricultural fields. I don't think I have ever seen more than one at a time flying that way. They appeared to leave one area pond and cross to another. Just before reaching their destination, a pair of small birds dived?dove? swooped on them, sending them swerving downwards. Everybody disappeared behind trees just after that, so I'm not sure, but my impression was that the smaller birds were Eastern Kingbirds. I thought maybe they mistook the herons for hawks. Some of the students asked my boss if it was his fake bird they had found on the patio beside the flagpole. A Worm-eating Warbler had apparantly collided with something and sat on the concrete stunned and unmoving. The kids wouldn't believe it was real until it opened its eyes. I moved it to a branch of a yard shrub, then took a few pictures of it before it revived and flew off. Don Holt Johnson City, TN ************************************************* 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-****