FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Re: [TN-Bird] Dutch Bottoms

["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

We went out by canoe in the evening and got a look at the bottoms from the 
river. We saw all the birds Rick reported, plus a few, with closer looks at 
the peeps, and a nice close-up of the golden plover. Best find for us was a 
first-of-the-year  WHITE IBIS, a juvenile, in the midst of the 50+ great 
egrets on the riverbank.  Douglas Lake elevation is now 958 feet.
Our totals:

Black-bellied plover
Am. golden-plover
Semipalmated plover (4)
Killdeer (150+)
Greater yellowlegs (10)
Lesser yellowlegs (36)
Solitary sandpiper (4)
Willet
Spotted sandpiper (7)
Semipalmated sandpiper (4)
Western sandpiper (12)
Least sandpiper (15)
*unclassified peeps (10)
Pectoral sandpiper (15)
Buff-breasted sandpiper (7)
Short-billed dowitcher

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens







> From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" 
> <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Dutch Bottoms
> Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:04:30 -0400
>
> 5 Sep 2007
> Dutch Bottoms on upper Douglas Lake
> Cocke Co., TN
> the lake is down a bit more & the viewing distance across the
> flats to spots where shorebirds concentrate is now vast, almost
> impossible for birding from shore; could not see some of the
> river-channel side of several islands, so likely missed some birds.
>
> Black-bellied Plover - 1
> Am. Golden-Plover - 1
> Solitary Sandpiper - 4
> Willet - 1
> Lsr. Yellowlegs - 18
> Pectoral Sandpiper - 15
> peep sp. - 30+  (too distant to ID)
> Buff-br. Sandpiper - 4
> Short-billed Dowitcher - 1
>
> Rick Knight
> Johnson City, TN

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