[TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms field trip
- From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2012 22:42:02 -0400
1 Sep 2012
Seven members of the Herndon Chapter of TOS visited
Dutch & Rankin Bottoms on Upper Douglas Lake in Cocke Co., TN.
Highlights:
Blue-wg. Teal - 50
Pied-billed Grebe - 1
D-c. Cormorant - 150+
Great Egret - 150+
Little Blue Heron - 1, imm.
Osprey - 1
Merlin - 1 - - this is probably why shorebirds were scattered & skittish.
Semipalmated Plover - 6+
Spotted Sandpiper - 3
Lsr. Yellowlegs - 15
Sanderling - 8
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 40+
Western Sandpiper - 5+
Least Sandpiper - 40+
peep sp. - 40+
Pectoral Sandpiper - 40+
Stilt Sandpiper - 3
Buff-br. Sandpiper - 5
Ring-billed Gull - 115 - - mostly Dutch Bottoms
Forster's Tern - 3
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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
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