[Bristol-Birds] Rankin directions
- From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
- To: VHanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 09:22:15 -0400
Victoria:
Assuming you'd be coming south from the Bristol area, exit I-81 south at
exit 8, take Hwy 25E through White Pine then across Douglas Lake/French
Broad River on the Walters Bridge. Turn left on Rankin Hill Rd. (binocular
sign), proceed 4 miles to stop sign/RR tracks. Turn left again, on Hill
Rd., continue for about 2 miles. Hill Rd. becomes gravel, then crosses RR
to enter Rankin WMA. You'll see glimpses of the mudflats as you proceed,
then a broad open view as you approach the concrete coal tipple.
Michael Sledjeski
Rankin Bottoms Project
From: "The Hanson Family" <VHanson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Bristol-Birds] Another Pelican
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 02:14:13 -0400
Would someone please post directions to Rankin Bottoms for me!!! I want to
go this week!
Thanks,
Victoria Hanson
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
To: <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 09, 2005 10:54 PM
Subject: [Bristol-Birds] Another Pelican
> An AMERICAN WHITE PELICAN has joined the one residing this past week at
> Rankin Bottoms in Cocke County. The new guy still has a pristine white
> belly, a gray cap, and dusky gray on the wings. The other has the
mud-brown
> belly. Both were visible from the tipple road.
>
> Douglas Lake is being drained rapidly. It was at 985 today, and will be
> down to 983.2 by midnight Sunday. Several acres of mudflat were visible
> from the road today. We saw a few dozen shorebirds there, and even more
at
> the lower end of the mudflats on the Nolichucky River (viewable only
from
> the water).
>
> Two heavily camoflaged boatloads of goosehunters with a long string of
> decoys waited for over 2 hours for some geese to blow out of the sky.
They
> gave up after sunset and headed downriver. Five minutes later, the
first
> squadron of Canadas came honking in, soon followed by another. A third
> flock was arriving as we left. Final score: Geese - 83, Hunters - 0.
>
> Other notable birds:
> Snowy egret (3)
> Little blue heron (5)
> Black-crowned night-heron (20+; 16 exploded from a willow grove as we
> approached)
> Semipalmated plover (6)
> Sanderling (6)
> Semipalmated sandpiper
> Western sandpiper
> Least sandpiper (50+)
> Pectoral sandpiper (19)
> Stilt sandpiper (2)
> also many great egrets, killdeer, & great blue herons,a few swallows,
green
> herons, belted kingfishers, and 2 ospreys
>
> Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
> Cocke County TN
>
>
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