Rankin Bottoms, Cocke county, 3/18/12, 2-5pm, by car & on foot Douglas Lake elevation: 963 ft.; well below Rankin, but the bottoms are flooding from wet-weather springs. Best birding was past the TWRA gate. Partial list: Wood duck (3) Gadwall (12) Am. wigeon (5) Blue-winged teal (8) Green-winged teal (32) Redhead (5 seen by LG) Pied-billed grebe Double-crested cormorant (3) Great blue heron (11 nests south of Rankin Bridge) Osprey (4) Northern harrier Red-tailed hawk Merlin Am. coot (24) Killdeer (2) Bonaparte's gull Ring-billed gull (9) Tree swallow Cliff swallow (6-FOS, at Rankin Bridge) Palm warbler Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Del Rio TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER==================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clemson, SC __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________