[Bristol-Birds] Douglas Lake 9/21/08

Ten Islands, Cocke county, by canoe
Douglas Lake elevation: 968.6. TVA has kept the lake at about the same level for over 2 weeks, unusual for Sepember. Much of the shoreline and riverbottoms have dried out, and shorebird habitat is limited to to muddy stream-fed inlets.
Gayle Rice, visiting from Georgia, and I went from the Walters Bridge boat ramp up to Ten Islands. Most of the shorebirds that we saw were located about a quarter mile west of the cove where they were concentrated during yesterday's field trip. 

Partial list:

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
  photo at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/103489092/medium
Semipalmated plover (5)
Killdeer (20)
Lesser yellowlegs (2)
Semipalmated sandpiper (3)
Western sandpiper
Least sandpiper (22)
WHITE-RUMPED SANDPIPER
 photo at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/103489001/large


Later, looking toward Dutch Bottoms from Hwy 25E:

Laughing gull
Ring-billed gull (28)
Caspian tern

Michael Sledjeski
Del Rio TN
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