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["Allan Trently" <ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Rankin Bottoms, Douglas Lake.  Elevation at 10 am on 4-11-05: 980.40.

The short-billed dowitcher and lesser scaup were at Rankin Bottoms today 
(April 11, 2005).  Other birds of note:

Eastern Kingbird: 3  (I had my first eastern kingbirds at Rankin Bottoms on 
4-5-05)
Osprey: 4 (two active nests)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher- 6 (a pair building a nest.  Nest looked nearly 
complete)
Ring-billed Gull- 4
Prothonatary Warbler: 7
Canada Goose: 10
Mallard: 17
Red-breasted Merganser: 1
Herring Gull: 1
Killdeer: 4 (I saw 3 chicks out of the nest on below Douglas Dam on 4-8-05)
Greater Yellowlegs: 34
Lesser Yellowlegs: 2 (probably more)
Pectoral Sandpiper: 1
Dunlin: 1 (was here on 4-8-05)
Double-crested Cormorant: 1
Blue-winged Teal: 26
Least Sandpiper: 21
Lesser Scaup: 1
Short-billed Dowitcher: 1

An immature bald eagle was seen on 4-8-05

No great blue herons, wood duck, green-wing teal were seen on 4-11-05.  
Approximately 30-40 cars seen parked at Rankin Bottoms.


Other birds of note seen at Rankin Bottoms on 4-8-05:

Great blue heron: 21
Great Egret: 1
wood duck: 4
Greater Yellowlegs: 3
Canada Goose: 11
Double-crested Cormorant: 3
Blue-wing teal: 26
Mallard: 12
Wood duck: 16
Bald eagle: 1 (immature)
Pectoral Sandpiper: 2
Prothonatary Warbler: 1




Allan Trently
ajtcorax@xxxxxxxxxxx




>From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: mtnsylva@xxxxxxx
>To: "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [TN-Bird] Rankin dowitcher, scaup &
>Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 20:10:34 -0400
>
>Douglas Lake is creeping up into Rankin Bottoms: thousands of carp are 
>partying in the shallows, and the summer birds are returning.  A couple of 
>rarities: Leslie Gibbens and I spotted a SHORT-BILLED DOWITCHER (first 
>spring record at Rankin, to my knowledge) in a gang of yellowlegs, and a 
>LESSER SCAUP (first ever recorded at Rankin) dabbling with some teal.
>Tomorrow may be the last day that the low road along the bottoms will be 
>completely above the lake waters, but good viewing should be possible from 
>shore until the end of the month.  Right now, the area is mobbed with 
>fishermen after white bass on their spring run.
>
>Also observed:
>Double-crested cormorant (3)
>Great Blue Heron (10, including one in a nest on the riverbank opposite 
>McCowan's Creek)
>Wood Duck (7)
>Mallard (12)
>Blue-winged teal (50+)
>Osprey (7)
>Least sandpiper (7)
>Greater yellowlegs (7)
>Lesser yellowlegs (15)
>Ring-billed gull
>Eastern kingbird (2) - First Of Season
>Barn swallow
>Tree Swallow
>Cliff swallow (200+ near Rankin Bridge)
>Blue-gray gnatcatcher (12) -FOS
>Prothonotary warbler (9) -FOS
>Yellow-rumped warbler (6)
>et al.
>
>Michael Sledjeski
>Del Rio, Cocke County TN
>
>
>
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