Stan Wallace and I visited the Hiwassee Refuge viewing area (Meigs Co.) today and saw the Hooded Crane from our arrival at 9:00am to around 10:45 when it crossed to the right of the gravel road and went out of sight. Hooded crane - 1 Whooping crane - 1 juv. (briefly) Sandhill crane - couple thousand? Gadwall - 2 Mallard - 3 Ring-necked duck - 10 Hooded merganser - lots on arrival Double-crested cormorant Ring-billed gull Boneparte's gull Bald eagle - 3 (2 adults at nest across water, 1 juv. circling) Red-tailed hawk - 1 Cooper's hawk - 1 American kestral - 1 Belted kingfisher - 1 along Hwy-58 heading home: Bald eagle - 2 ad. Red-shouldered hawk - 1 American kestral - 7 Shane Williams Knoxville, TN