[TN-Bird] upcoming KTOS trip to Rankin Bottoms

From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2003 12:06:37 -0400 (EDT)
I wanted to pass along an announcement for an upcoming Knoxville-TOS
field-trip to Rankin Bottoms in Cocke County, TN, on Saturday,
23 August 2003.  Hope to see a lot of folks out there.  Hopefully
water levels will be on schedule and prime for shorebirds that weekend
though last week's rains had the lake rising this past weekend instead
of dropping.

BTW, for those not familiar with our normal meeting spot, Cedar Bluff
Road (mentioned in the announcement) is off of I-40/75 in West Knoxville
(forget the exit number).  The Stokely Building is the large white
office building at the intersection of Executive Park and Cedar Bluff,
just north of the interstate beside McDonald's.

Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN

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Saturday, 23 August 2003
Rankin WMA, Cocke Co., TN
Leader: Dean Edwards (560-9701, cell: 660-9701)

We will meet at the Stokely Building on Cedar Bluff Road at 12 noon.
The drive to Rankin Bottoms from here is approximately 1 hour.  We will
stop at the Hardee's at Exit 417 on I-40 in Dandridge around 12:45-1:00
as a secondary rendezvous point and for a last-chance food and restroom
break.  Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens of the Rankin Project
(founded to help preserve and protect Rankin Bottoms) will be on-hand
to offer canoe tours later in the day.

Rankin is remote and open with little shade and no food or restrooms
nearby.  Some of us will likely stay until sunset when the waders come
to roost.  Bring plenty of food and drink, shoes you can get muddy
and sunscreen.  There will be little walking; lawn chairs can be very
useful.  A scope is required to see many of the birds but there should
be plenty on-hand to share.  We typically have well over 50 people on
this field trip.

The trip is planned to coincide with the drawdown of Douglas Lake to
levels which provide excellent habitat for migrating shorebirds including
Black-bellied Plover, American Golden-Plover, Sanderling, dowitchers,
Stilt, Buff-breasted and Baird's Sandpipers and many other more common
species.  Past trips have also found Ruff, Marbled Godwit, Ruddy
Turnstone, Willet, and Wilson's and Red Phalaropes.

In addition to shorebirds, we should find many species of herons, egrets,
ducks, terns and swallows as well as Willow Flycatcher, Warbling Vireo
and Prothonotary Warbler.  In past years, we have had Peregrine Falcon,
Bald Eagle, and White Ibis.







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