FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Rankin Wildlife Management Area (Cocke Co., TN)

[Don Miller <raincrow@xxxxxxx>]

30 August 2003
Rankin Wildlife Management Area
Cocke Co., TN

The Greeneville TOS trip scheduled for Sunday, 31 August was canceled.
However, I was able to visit Rankin myself for a short time late on
Saturday.  The water was still significantly higher than the optimum
level for shorebirding, but I recorded the following (most shorebirds
viewed at a distance of  a fifth of a mile or more):

Double-crested Cormorant (4, plus 4 at Rankin Bridge);
Great Egret (21);
Green Heron (4);
Black-crowned Night-Heron;
Wood Duck (4);
Semipalmated Plover (3);
Lesser Yellowlegs (3);
Spotted Sandpiper (3);
Least Sandpiper (at least 12);
Semipalmated Sandpiper (at least 1);
Pectoral Sandpiper (8);
Stilt Sandpiper (2);
Eastern Kingbird (3);
White-eyed Vireo.

Michael Sledjeski has informed me that water levels should be prime by
the middle of this week or a little later.

Don Miller
Greeneville, TN

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