[TN-Bird] Common terns, Rankin shorebirds
- From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
- To: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 25 Sep 2006 09:02:43 -0400
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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