[TN-Bird] Avocet etc.@Taylor's Bend

Douglas Lake (956.2 ft.), Jefferson County,
4:30-7:30 PM, 9/20/07

Got off work early so we drove down to Dutch Bottoms and launched the canoe 
in a shallow slough and motored across to Taylor's Bend.  Shorebird numbers 
were down, but the species variety  made for a good trip.  Viewing here is 
not for the squeamish, you have to walk through some serious mud to look 
across at the embayment.


Notable:

Canada goose (200+)
Blue-winged teal (42)
Dbl-crstd cormorant (45)
Great Blue heron (48)
Great egret (225)
Black-crowned night-heron (3)
Osprey
Bald eagle (1 adult, 1 imm.)
Ring-billed gull

AMERICAN GOLDEN-PLOVER
Killdeer (22)
AMERICAN AVOCET
Lesser yellowlegs (53)
Greater yellowlegs (6)
Spotted sandpiper (2)
RUDDY TURNSTONE
Semipalmated sandpiper
Least sandpiper (6)
Pectoral sandpiper (32)
BUFF-BREASTED SANDPIPER (juv.)
LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER (juv.-  Our closeup digital images  match the juv. on 
p.201 of  "The                      Shorebird Guide" [O'Brien et al.]- no 
internal markings on coverts and tertials)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN

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