FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Piping Plover at Rankin Bottoms

["Rick Knight" <RKnight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This afternoon (1 Sep) a Piping Plover was present at Rankin Bottoms, on upper 
Douglas Lake in Cocke Co in east Tenn.  Also seen were:
Great Egret - 60+
Little Blue Heron - 2 im
Black-cr. Night-Heron - 10+
Semipalmated Plover - 5
Lesser Yellowlegs - 1
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 40+
Least Sandpiper - 40+
Western Sandpiper - 10+
Pectoral Sandpiper - 60+
Stilt Sandpiper - 3
Short-billed Dowitcher - 3
N. Shoveler - 4
Blue-wg. Teal - 6
Osprey - 3+

The lake level is at or about 985 ft, which is the magic number for a 
combination of enough mudflats and accessibility on foot (boots for mud 
recommended) for good birding.  Conditions should get better over the next 
several days as the lake drops more.

Thanks for the canoe ride, Michael & Leslie.

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Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
rknight@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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