Dutch Bottoms (by car) & Ten Islands (by canoe), Cocke county, 11/2/10, 5-7 PM Douglas Lake elevation: 969 ft. We drove along the old concrete highway along Dutch Bottoms and scoped from a few spots. Plenty of ducks on the lake, but many were too far, and backlit, for positive i.d. Partial list: Northern shoveler (12) Hooded merganser (2) Pied-billed grebe (15) Great blue heron (18) Great egret (25) Am. coot (36) Dunlin (32) Ring-billed gull (500+) Herring gull We launched our canoe at Walters Bridge and headed east to Ten Islands. A little raft of unfamiliar ducks in the middle of the lake, about a mile from the bridge, allowed us to get close enough for photos and a good long look - our first BLACK SCOTERS. Partial list: Green-winged teal (28) Black Scoter (10) images - http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/130028087 & http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/130028594 Double-crested cormorant (65) Great blue heron (33) Great egret (42) Dunlin (13) Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________