[TN-Bird] Douglas Lake and Rankin Bottoms
- From: "Chuck/Lola Estes" <chucklola@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2012 07:24:59 -0400
9/16/12
1:00 to 4:30 pm
Cocke and Jefferson County
Starting at Rankin Bottoms there was only one shorebird (American Avocet) in
the normal mudflats. I kayaked down lake (west) of the Leadville train
trestle and found a nice group of shorebirds on a mudflat peninsular
extending from the trestle on the Cocke County (south) side of the lake.
There were about 60 birds that I was working through to the mudflat tip down
lake but I never finished as a juvenile Peregrine Falcon buzzed the mudflat
a couple of times and the shorebirds left and never came back. In a mudflat
cove on the opposite side of the lake (Jefferson County) I found an Eared
Grebe with a Pied-billed Grebe. Likely the same bird seen by Michael and
Leslie.
- American Avocet - 1
- Least Sandpiper - 30
- Western Sandpiper - 2
- Baird's Sandpiper - 2
- Pectoral Sandpiper - 15
- Semipalmated Plover - 5
- Killdeers - many
- Eared Grebe - 1
- Pied-billed Grebe - 1
- Wild Turkey - 9
- Great Egret - 30 +
- Great Blue Heron - 6
- Peregrine Falcon - 1
Chuck Estes
Oak Ridge, TN
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