FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Buff-breasted, Peregrine @ Rankin, 6 Sept

[K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

About 17 birders were around Rankin WMA Saturday afternoon
(6 Sept) during the KTOS field trip.  The water level was
a bit higher than expected keeping the birds farther away
than we would have liked.  A good section of the lake-bed
road was still underwater.  Despite the lateness in the
season, we still managed 10 species of shorebird with the
best being a single Buff-breasted Sandpiper and at least
one Sanderling.  A Peregrine Falcon made a pass through in
the mid-afternoon scattering the birds; many didn't return.

A single Green-winged Teal was the only non-resident duck.
Two juvenile dowitchers were present all day but stayed
pretty far away.  Eventually we got close enough to get
a somewhat decent look at the tertials to call them
Short-billed.


Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co., TN
Saturday, 6 September 2003
Douglas Lake at ~982ft


Double-crested Cormorant - 40+
Great Blue Heron
Great Egret - 50+ at Rankin,  20+ at Dutch Bottoms
Green Heron
Black-crowned Night-Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Wood Duck
Mallard
Green-winged Teal - 1
Osprey
Peregrine Falcon - 1
Semipalmated Plover - at least 8
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper - 1
Sanderling - 1, possibly 2 different birds seen separately based
        on plumage
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 5+
Western Sandpiper - 1 late in the day
Least Sandpiper - 20+
peep sp. - probably another 50 or more flybys passing through
Pectoral Sandpiper - 5+
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1
Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 juveniles
Belted Kingfisher
Pileated Woodpecker
Barn Swallow

Some non-birds:

Reptiles:
Northern Water Snake
"Ouachita" False Map Turtle

Dragonflies:
river cruiser sp.
Eastern Amberwing
Common Whitetail

Leps:
Cloudless Sulphur
Common Buckeye
Viceroy, several
Least Skipper, only one

Chickweed Geometer (moth) at Dutch Bottoms



Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN




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