By car at Dutch Bottoms (DB) & Rankin Bottoms (RB), Cocke county, 9/24/06,
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Douglas Lake elevation: 977 (approx)
We watched a dozen terns speeding around DB, then finally settle on a shoal
close to the highway. Some showed breeding marks (longish, red bill; dark
tail), some, nonbreeding (dark carpal-bars); all were smaller than the
ring-billed gulls nearby.
DB:
Great Egret (35) Bald eagle (3 imm.) Ring-billed gull (32) Common tern (12) - we didn't see any shorebirds there
RB:
Wood duck (5) Mallard (80+) Blue-winged teal (22) Great Blue heron (14) Great Egret (45) Black-crowned night-heron (3 imm.) Osprey Semipalmated plover (8) Killdeer (30) Lesser yellowlegs (15) Spotted sandpiper Semipalmated sandpiper Least sandpiper (70) Stilt sandpiper (9)
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens Cocke county TN
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