[TN-Bird] Common terns, Rankin shorebirds

By car at Dutch Bottoms (DB) & Rankin Bottoms (RB), Cocke county, 9/24/06, 
5:30 - 7:30 PM
Douglas Lake elevation: 977 (approx)

We watched a dozen terns speeding around DB, then finally settle on a shoal 
close to the highway.  Some showed breeding marks (longish, red bill; dark 
tail), some, nonbreeding (dark carpal-bars); all were smaller than the 
ring-billed gulls nearby.

DB:

   Great Egret (35)
   Bald eagle (3 imm.)
   Ring-billed gull (32)
   Common tern (12)
   - we didn't see any shorebirds there

Lots of fresh mud at RB - we drove to the Gate Pond: no avocet, or any other 
birds there; empty shotgun shells on the road.

RB:

  Wood duck (5)
  Mallard (80+)
  Blue-winged teal (22)
  Great Blue heron (14)
  Great Egret (45)
  Black-crowned night-heron (3 imm.)
  Osprey
  Semipalmated plover (8)
  Killdeer (30)
  Lesser yellowlegs (15)
  Spotted sandpiper
  Semipalmated sandpiper
  Least sandpiper (70)
  Stilt sandpiper (9)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Cocke county TN


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