[TN-Bird] 10 Islands, Douglas Lake

Cocke & Jefferson counties, 5/29/07, 5:00-7:00 PM
Lake elevation : 981.7

We launched our canoe near the Leadvale trestle and traveled  east, then 
south about a mile past the "21" mile marker, surveying both sides of the 10 
Island section of the lake.  The osprey nest on the first silo was intact 
but unoccupied; there were 2 ospreys in the other, at the riverbend.

Two great egrets were displaying nuptial plumage & picking up, grasping and 
flying with sticks in their bills.  We didn't see any nests.

We went ashore by a 1/2 acre pond on the Jefferson county side.  A narrow 
levee separates the pond from the riverbank; it's surrounded by a dense band 
of trees and shrubs.  Black-crowned herons flew off, calling, when we 
stepped onto the levee.  We waited a while, listening, then heard whooshing 
overhead as a flock of wood ducks came down onto the water.  There were 2 
females with brood on the pond , and more on the lake.

10 Islands observations ("J" - Jefferson county pond), partial list:

Wood duck (34 adult [28J], 38 young [8J])
Lesser scaup (3)
Double-cr. cormorant (28)
Geat blue heron (8)
Great egret (15)
Green heron (2)
Black-crowned night-heron (14)
Osprey (2)
Bald eagle (2 juvenile)
American coot
Willow flycatcher (J)
Prothonotary warbler (J)
Baltimore oriole

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN


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