[TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms Canoe Trip - Cocke County
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- Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 23:39:45 EDT
Rankin Bottoms Canoe Trip, Cocke County, May 11, 2005
Allan Trently, Michael Sledjeski and Marcia Davis meandered around by canoe
at Rankin Bottoms from just above Rankin Bridge to below the coal tipple from 5
until 8:30 p.m. on May 11, 2005.
Water level was approximately 990.9 with little or no shoreline habitat
available for migrant shorebirds. The only group of shorebirds we saw was well
beyond the coal tipple on a gravel area on a small piece of flooded land
forming a
small island.
The combination of recent rains and TVA's new management plan to raise the
water level of Douglas Lake earlier in the season is bad news for the
shorebirds
that normally stop over at Rankin Bottoms during spring migration. It is
disheartening to witness how East Tennessee may be losing this prime shorebird
habitat at Rankin to higher water levels.
Species seen/heard were:
Canada Goose - 70
Wood Duck - 36, not including ducklings
Mallard - 10
Wild Turkey - 1, strutting down the railroad tracks
Double-crested Cormorant - 144
Great Blue Heron - 20, I suspect I forgot to tally more of these.
Great Egret - 7
Cattle Egret - 6
Green Heron - 6
Black-crowned Hight-Heron - 2
Turkey Vulture - 2
Osprey - 6, three nests
American Coot - 1
Killdeer - 4
Lesser Yellowlegs - 2
Spotted Sandpiper - 7
Mourning Dove - 4
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 4
Red-headed Woodpecker - 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3
Downy Woodpecker - 5
N. Flicker - 3
Great-crested Flycatcher - 3
Eastern Kingbird - 16
Yellow-throated Vireo - 1
Red-eyed Vireo - 2
Blue Jay - 1
Purple Martin - 6
Tree Swallow - 5
N. Rough-winged Swallow - 7
Cliff Swallow - 100 + we did not count them. Earlier in the week, Michael
counted an estimated 550 nests on the boat launch side of Rankin Bridge. There
are hundreds more on the other side of the bridge.
Barn Swallow - 18
Carolina Chickadee - 3
Tufted Titmouse - 8
Carolina Wren - 4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 15
Am. Robin - 1
European Starling - 3
Cedar Waxwing - 11
Yellow Warbler - 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1
Yellow-throated Warbler - 1
Prothonotary Warbler - 25
Common Yellowthroat - 4
Song Sparrow - 4
N. Cardinal - 7
Indigo Bunting - 6
Red-winged Blackbird - 24
Eastern Meadowlark - 3
Common Grackle - 24
Brown-headed Cowbird - 4
Orchard Oriole - 17
Am. Goldfinch - 8
Species Total - 53
Marcia Davis
Knoxville, TN
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