Been a slow summer. It feels like there has been nothing going on but in fact we've had some good showing. One was a Mississippi kite out in the county. Unfortunately, as best I know, there was no follow up sighting. A second sighting was today but I don't where along Charlie Carson Road it occurred. The second was a Anhinga seen and photographed upstream from Winged Deer Park on Boone Lake. That one caused some excitement. There was a second sighting in Johnson County. If I am not mistaken this was a first! Fall Naturalist Rally at Roan Mountain is September 11. Check either the park's schedule or start with the Friends of Roan Mountain facebook site. After that we swing into the Fall count. This ought to be about year 77 or so. The Lee and Lois Herndon Chapter of TOS has been in business a long time. Search for Elizabehton Bird Club if you are interested. We field a whole gang of bird watchers who make the day interesting. After this the annual trip to the coast. This time its four days (one down, two and a half there, one back) to the Georgia Coast below Savannah. Good birding country and about as foreign to upper East Tennessee as is Yellowstone or Maine. Don't have Joe McGuiness' email handy so check the club page or contact me at CFM46@MOUNET.COM. ###