FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Dutch Bottoms 8/25/07

["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

Douglas Lake (962'), Cocke county
By canoe, 5:00-7:30 PM

Shorebirds were dispersed over a couple of miles of mudflat edge.  The peeps 
were particularly hard to distinguish & enumerate, so my numbers are very 
approximate.
Partial list:

Black-bellied plover (5)
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer (125)
American avocet (13)
Greater yellowlegs (2)
Lesser yellowlegs (42)
Willet (2)
Spotted sandpiper (2)
Peeps (200+; semipalmated, western, and least in roughly equal proportions)
Pectoral sandpiper (42)
Stilt sandpiper
Short-billed dowitcher (16)
Wilson's phalarope - (2)

Michael Sledjeski
Del Rio TN


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