We went out by canoe in the evening and got a look at the bottoms from the river. We saw all the birds Rick reported, plus a few, with closer looks at the peeps, and a nice close-up of the golden plover. Best find for us was a first-of-the-year WHITE IBIS, a juvenile, in the midst of the 50+ great egrets on the riverbank. Douglas Lake elevation is now 958 feet. Our totals: Black-bellied plover Am. golden-plover Semipalmated plover (4) Killdeer (150+) Greater yellowlegs (10) Lesser yellowlegs (36) Solitary sandpiper (4) Willet Spotted sandpiper (7) Semipalmated sandpiper (4) Western sandpiper (12) Least sandpiper (15) *unclassified peeps (10) Pectoral sandpiper (15) Buff-breasted sandpiper (7) Short-billed dowitcher Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens >From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Reply-To: rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx >To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" ><tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >Subject: [TN-Bird] Dutch Bottoms >Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:04:30 -0400 > >5 Sep 2007 >Dutch Bottoms on upper Douglas Lake >Cocke Co., TN >the lake is down a bit more & the viewing distance across the >flats to spots where shorebirds concentrate is now vast, almost >impossible for birding from shore; could not see some of the >river-channel side of several islands, so likely missed some birds. > >Black-bellied Plover - 1 >Am. Golden-Plover - 1 >Solitary Sandpiper - 4 >Willet - 1 >Lsr. Yellowlegs - 18 >Pectoral Sandpiper - 15 >peep sp. - 30+ (too distant to ID) >Buff-br. Sandpiper - 4 >Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 > >Rick Knight >Johnson City, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________