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["michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>]

Dean & TN-birders:
We were  at Dutch Bottoms on Saturday evening from 5:00 to 8:00 PM, and saw 
the usual good variety and numbers of shorebirds that have been reported for 
the past couple of weeks.  There were fewer peeps than last time out, with 
Rick & Virginia on Wednesday; otherwise about the same tally, with 3 
additional species.  We didn't get to see the turnstones - that would have 
been shorebird species # 20, an outstanding number.
We entered the lakeshore at the access road 2.5 miles south of Walters 
Bridge, then drove about a mile north to scope the flats.  We then canoed 
along the south end of the flats and along the river and into the creek that 
runs toward the silos across from Dutch Bottoms Church.

Shorebirds seen 9/1/30 - numbers approximate; birds shuffling in distant, 
multi-species flocks :

Black-bellied plover (3)
Semi-palmated plover (14)
Killdeer (125+)
American avocet (12)*
Greater yelowlegs (8)
Lesser yelowlegs (50+)
Solitary sandpiper (2)*
Willet (3)*
Spotted sandpiper
Sanderling*
Semipalmated sandpiper (15)
Western sandpiper (20)
Least sandpiper (35)
-unclassified "peeps" (40+)
Baird's sandpiper
Pectoral sandpiper (25)
Stilt sandpiper (4)*
Buff-breasted sandpiper
Short-billed dowitcher (20+)*
Wilson's phalarope (2)*

*photos available

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN

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>From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxx>
>Reply-To: kde@xxxxxxx
>To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Subject: [TN-Bird] Dutch Bottoms - Cocke
>Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 14:53:18 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
>Night game = morning birding
>
>Didn't have much time but spent a couple hours Sat morning
>(1 Sept 2007) birding at Dutch Bottoms in Cocke Co.  Numbers
>of birds were low and they were far away but good diversity
>and some great species.  Peep numbers were ridiculously low,
>probably because they were too far away to spot.
>
>Highlights:
>
>Canada Goose, numerous
>
>Double-crested Cormorant, numerous
>
>Great Blue Heron, numerous
>Great Egret, numerous
>
>BLACK-BELLIED PLOVER, 1
>Killdeer, 50+
>AMERICAN AVOCET, 3
>Lesser Yellowlegs, 2
>Solitary Sandpiper, 1
>Spotted Sandpiper, 1
>RUDDY TURNSTONE, 4
>Least Sandpiper, 1, ludicrously low number
>BAIRD'S SANDPIPER, 1 juvenile
>Pectoral Sandpiper, 1
>
>Tree Swallow, 200++
>BANK SWALLOW, 50++
>Cliff Swallow, 20+, tried hard for Cave but all I saw well had dark faces
>Barn Swallow, 20+
>
>
>Blatently obvious tip of the day:  Avoid the dark mud.
>
>GO VOLS!
>
>Dean Edwards
>Knoxville, TN


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