[TN-Bird] Douglas Lake report
- From: michael sledjeski <mbsledjeski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2012 10:56:26 -0400
Rankin Bottoms - Ten Islands, Cocke county, 9/15/2012, 5:30-8 PM, by canoe
Lake elevation: 980 ft.- less water near the tipple, but plenty of mud
The mudscape is changing daily, and shorebirds are concentrating farther down
the lake. Best viewing on 9/15 was east of the Leadvale RR trestle, on the
Cocke county side. In a few days, most of the prime habitat will be in the Ten
Islands area, on the opposite side of the Rankin peninsula from Rankin Bottoms.
There's not much in the way of public roads or convenient viewing from the
shoreline around Ten Islands. Good looks from the water, though, at recent
East TN rarities such as Red Phalarope, Franklin's Gull and Tricolored Heron.
We saw the GOLDEN-PLOVER at Rankin Bottoms, reported yesterday by Ed Schneider
(who, I'm sure, has a much better photo than mine), and an early DUNLIN across
from Leadvale; but no Ibises, grebes, or Baird's Sandpipers.
Partial list:
Little Blue Heron (3 imm.)
Green Heron
Osprey
Golden-Plover - FOS
fuzzy photo- http://www.pbase.com/image/146068987/original
Semipalmated Plover (26)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (12)
Western Sandpiper (6)
Least Sandpiper (38)
Pectoral Sandpiper (28)
Dunlin - FOS
http://www.pbase.com/image/146068991/original
Stilt Sandpiper
Yellow-rumped Warbler (8
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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