FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Rankin 5/1/05

["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

A splendid day to be on the water : sunny, clear and barely warm.  Douglas Lake 
has risen a couple feet this past week, and dense vegetation on the exposed 
bottoms limits visibility from the shore.  We explored habitat around the 
embayment by canoe for about 5 hours.  The numbers cited are conservative; it's 
hard to tell if we're encountering the same birds in different locations.  
There seemed to be several ospreys in view wherever we went.
Most notable:
Pied-billed grebe
Double-crested cormorant (75)
Great egret (10)
Great blue heron (20)
Little blue heron (1 adult)
Wood duck (25)
Blue-winged teal (30)
Bald eagle (1 immature)
Red-tailed hawk
Osprey (8)
Black vulture (75)
American coot (6)
Pectoral sandpiper
Solitary sandpiper (6)
Greater yellowlegs (3)
Lesser Yellowlegs (45)
Ring-billed gull (25)
Caspian tern
Warbling vireo (heard, but not seen)
Yellow-breasted chat
Black-throated green warbler (10)
Palm warbler (2)
Prothonotary warbler (10)
Common yellowthroat
Indigo bunting (2)

Go canoe birding with us on International Migratory Bird Day

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Cocke County TN






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