FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Douglas Lake dowitcher, etc.

["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

Dougls Lake, Cocke County, July 5, 2007; 12:00 - 3:30 PM
Lake elevation: 975'.  That's nearly 20 feet lower than a year ago.  We've 
enjoyed some rain in the mountains recently, but the water in Douglas Lake 
is released into the TVA system to the drought areas downstream.  Douglas is 
now 7 feet lower than it's highest level in late May.  Rankin Bottoms wasn't 
half-flooded at that point, now it's planted in soybeans all the way to 
Leadvale.

We put in our canoe at the Leadvale boat ramp and went west toward  Ten 
Islands, where the mudflats are broadening, and we saw most of the birds of 
the day, including the early-returning shorebirds.

Partial list:
Wood duck (15)
Double-cr. cormorant (24)
Great blue heron (36)
Great egret (90)
Green heron (9)
Osprey (6)
Bald eagle (1 adult)
Red-tailed hawk
Killdeer (250+)
Lesser yellowlegs
Least sandpiper (4)
Short-billed dowitcher - orange neck, white belly: adult breeding/Atlantic 
plumage
Eastern kingbird (5)
also, Blue grosbeak, seen 7/1 at Rankin Bottoms, indicative of how the 
habitat has changed there.

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN


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