[Bristol-Birds] Upper Douglas Lake, Cocke county

We checked out 3 areas on 11/11 as the cold front moved in during the late afternoon. Rain and cold wind kept us in the car most of the time, probably limiting our observations. 

Douglas Lake elevation was at 969.4, high for this time of year .

*Dutch Bottoms, (from "Newport Beach", across from Dutch Bottoms Church):

Çanada Goose
Great Blue Heron (22)
Great Egret (7)
Killdeer (5)
Least sandpiper (22)
Dunlin (15)
*Ten Islands (viewed from Brown Hollow Rd.) - teal & shorebird numbers like we've been seeing for the past 4 weeks: 

Green-winged teal (65)
Great Blue Heron (19)
Great egret
Killdeer (10)
Least sandpiper (48)
Dunlin (75)
Ring-billed gull (11)

*Rankin Bottoms:

Wood duck (4)
Double-cr. cormorant (6)
Great Blue Heron (13)
Great egret (5)
Black vulture (4)
Ring-billed gull (3)
Belted kingfisher
Hermit thrush
American pipit (42)
Yelow-rumped warbler
Song sparrow

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens


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