[TN-Bird] Douglas Lake 8/28/08

Dutch Bottoms & Ten Islands, Cocke county, 8/28/08, 4-7:00 PM
Lake elevation: 970.6 ft.

First, we stopped at "Newport Beach", the wide area with the white  
fence across from Dutch Bottoms Church on Highway 25E.  A few   
shorebirds were feeding on the mudflats, and a small flock of Caspian  
terns were resting on a bar farther out on the lake.   We then put in  
our canoe at Walters Bridge and motored up the lake to Ten Islands.   
Heavy rains had swollen the river and flushed a mess of tree limbs,  
vegetation, and human litter into the area.  The debris was strewn in  
a broad swath for a mile or more along what had been the most-favored  
feeding grounds for shorebirds a few days ago.  Their numbers &  
variety were less than we expected; most peculiar, there were no  
killdeer to be seen -  a peregrine scare? .  We returned on the water  
to Newport Beach, where there were quite a few more peeps than earlier.

Partial list; Dutch Bottoms (D), Ten Islands (T)

Wood Duck (12T)
Blue-winged Teal (4D)
Double-crested Cormorant (14D, 8T)
Great Blue Heron (8D, 35T)
Great Egret (65D, 130 T)
Osprey (5D, 2T)
Semipalmated Plover (2D, 18T)
Killdeer (5D)
Lesser Yellowlegs (3T)
Spotted Sandpiper (3D, 4T)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (28D, 42T)
Western Sandpiper (10D, 9T)
Least Sandpiper (40D, 45T)
Pectoral Sandpiper (1T)
Stilt Sandpiper (1D, 1T)
Ring-billed Gull (12D)
Caspian Tern (15D, one with an unusually light cap - see photo)
   http://www.pbase.com/image/102349341/large

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbbens
Del Rio TN



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