[Bristol-Birds] Douglas - dunlins - 10/5/08

Ten Islands, Dutch Bottoms, Taylor Bend, Cocke county; by canoe, 2-6 PM.
Lake elevation: 964.7 ft.
There were few birds at Ten Islands & Taylor Bend; most were at Dutch Bottoms, which has wide expanses of mudbank and shallows. 

Highlights:

Ring-necked duck (2 hens - FOS))
 flight image at http://www.pbase.com/image/104165975/original
American coot
Double-crested cormorant (100+)
Great blue heron (55)
Great egret (100+)
Osprey
Killdeer (30)
Spotted sandpiper
Least sandpiper (42)
Pectoral sandpiper
Dunlin ( 2, molting juv. - FOS)
  Detailed images starting @ http://www.pbase.com/image/104167269/large
Ring-billed gull (80)
Tree swallow (20)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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