FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Rankin flooding

["michael sylva" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

TVA estimates that Douglas Lake will be at 995.1 feet by midnight Friday, 9/10. 
 That's higher than it's been all summer, and nearly 10 feet deeper than last 
weekend.  That means no mudflats, virtually no shorebird habitat, and barely 
any place to set up a scope at Rankin Bottoms.  Also, 9/11 is the opening of 
teal/wood duck hunting season.  
Lake level info : 1-800-238-2264, punch "1" (current) or "2" predicted, then 
"07" for Douglas Lake.

Labor Day weekend at Rankin Bottoms, 15 shorebird species were recorded, along 
with 7 heron species (including the cattle egrets seen by Don Holt, Leslie 
Gibbens and I on Monday evening).  My unoffical count of total birders was 18, 
including Rack Cross, whom I can now add to my life list.

Michael Sledjeski
Cocke county TN     


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