Sun., Dec. 01, 2002 Musick's Campground, Weir Dams and South Holston Dam, South Holston Lake, Sullivan Co., TN I heard a Sandhill Crane call, three times within a minute or so, around 3 pm this afternoon while birding Musick's Campground. Between the wind and my multiple layers of hoods and hats, I couldn't place the direction with certainty. I never saw the bird. Rack Cross joined me shortly thereafter. We scoped out the lake, then walked the banks in search of cranes and snow buntings and leftover shorebirds (without luck). The following birds were found at Musick's: Horned Grebe (~15), Pied-billed Grebe (~5), Common Loon (~5), Great Blue Heron (1), Bufflehead (13), Cooper's Hawk (1), Red-tailed Hawk (1), Osprey (1), Sandhill Crane (1 heard), Kildeer (1), Bonaparte's Gull (~30?), Ring-billed Gull (~60?), Belted Kingfisher (1), Northern Flicker (1), American Crow (~8), Eastern Bluebird (2) Earlier, from about noon to 2 pm, I birded at the Weir Dams and South Holston Dam and found the following: Weir Dams (mainly at the head of Osceola Island) - many Bufflehead, a few Ring-necked Duck (males and females), a few Lesser Scaup (males and females), a few Greater Scaup (females only), Mallards (twice seen with fish and being pursued by Gulls), Ring-billed Gulls South Holston Dam and the lake - 300+ Ring-billed Gulls, about a dozen Bufflehead, and a Common Raven The beaver pond on S. Holston Dam Road - one male Green-winged Teal among about a dozen Mallards, a Red-tailed Hawk and an Eastern Phoebe Don Holt 910 Smalling Rd. Johnson City, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423) 764-3958 =========================================================