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["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

Upper Douglas Lake, between Walters Bridge & Leadvale; Cocke county

 

Launched canoe from Walters boat ramp and headed east late in the day.  We noticed that shorebirds were few & far between, then spotted a small peregrine falcon. 

 

Also seen:

Wood duck (62 - flying out of the woods after sunset)

Blue-winged teal (8)

Mallard (5)

American white pelican (30th day of mingling with the great egrets)

Double-crested cormorant (28)

Great Blue heron (27)

Great egret (180)

Black-crowned night-heron (19 - most flew over in a tight flock) 

Peregrine falcon

Semipalmated plover

Greater yellowlegs

Least sandpiper (13)

Stilt sandpiper (sitting on the ground - thought we had a curlew)

Great horned owl

 

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens

Cocke county TN

 

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