[TN-Bird] Rankin and Dutch Bottoms and special thanks to Chuck Estes
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Sept. 1, 2014
Dutch and Rankin Bottoms
Cocke County , TN
Traveling
Traveled up from Rutherford County to Cocke County to go to Rankin and
Dutch Bottoms for the first time. I was told the sun would be in my eyes in
the morning but I went anyway. Chuck Estes pulled in a few minutes after me
and told me he was going to Kayak out to the mudflat's. I told him I was
really interested in seeing a Sanderling if he spotted one and a
Buff-breasted Sandpiper. He paddle out and wave his paddle and pointed to the
direction of a Sanderling. I immediately got on the bird and watched it run
around looking for field marks. Luckily the sun went behind some clouds and I
got a great look through my scope. Later in the morning I walked down to
another mudflat and Chuck had the Buff-breasted Sandpiper about 40 feet from
him. Sanderling was a new Tennessee bird. Saw my one and only
Buff-breasted sandpiper on Aug. 30, 1987 at PACE Point, TN NWR Big Sandy Unit
on my
24 birthday. That's the day my Dad and I met Jeff Wilson, We were wading
across to the small Island there and he came up in a aluminum john boat and
asked what we were seeing. Then offered to take us out in the lake to see
some Jaegers. Turned out to be a Pomarine and a Long-tailed. Saw several
good birds with Jeff in the late eighties. Don't remember how many times I
drove up to Cross Creeks to see a Spoonbill he kept finding, I wouldd get
up there and stay as long as I could and leave and Jeff would report seeing
it and hour after I left or tell me it had just flown off as I got there.
That's birding. Enough about the old times. There were about 8 other
birders this morning I met. Nice to meet you and bird with you all.
Best birds seen today:
Rankin Bottoms
American Golden Plover
Black-bellied Plover
Semi-palm plover
Least Sandpiper
Short-billed Dowitcher
Black Tern
Osprey
Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs
Pectoral Sandpiper
Dutch Bottoms
Caspian Tern
Forster's Terns
Ring-billed Gulls
Lots of DC Cormorants swimming around.
Great morning. HUGE THANK YOU to CHUCK ESTES.
Good birding,
Stephen Zipperer
Rutherford County, TN
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