[Bristol-Birds] Rankin 8/15/08

Rankin Bottoms & Ten Islands, Cocke county; 8/15/08, 5:00-8:00 PM, by car & canoe 
Douglas Lake elevation: 976 ft.
Leslie G. and I checked out the well-drained southern end of Rankin Bottoms, then joined Rick Knight near the northern end, where there's still a broad expanse of mud. Rick & I then went by canoe downlake into the Ten Islands section, still flooded, but shallow. We returned for a closer look at the Rankin Bottoms mudflats, which had a greater concentration of shorebirds. 

Partial list:

Wood duck (15)
Double-crested cormorant (ca. 50)
Great Blue Heron (45)
Little Blue Heron (3 juvenile)
Great egret (200+, more than ever, flying to 2 separate roosts)
Green heron (18)
Black-crowned night-heron (26, about half of them juvenile)
White ibis (1 juv., flying to roost among the great egrets)
Osprey (3)
Red-tailed hawk
Semipalmated plover (6)
Killdeer (250+)
Lesser yellowlegs
Spotted sandpiper (8)
Semipalmated sandpiper (45)
Western sandpiper
Least sandpiper (100+)
Pectoral sandpiper (54)
Short-billed dowitcher (2 juv.)
  image @ http://www.pbase.com/image/101781064/original
Many thanks to Rick for an advance copy of his new NE TN bird checklist - an outstanding upgrade of the essential original. 

Michael Sledjeski
Del Rio TN
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