[TN-Bird] Eagles & peeps

From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2006 22:42:27 -0400
We canoed this afternoon on  upper Douglas  Lake  from Walters Bridge (Hwy 
25E) halfway upriver to the Leadvale boat ramp. Pre-adult bald eagles were 
out in force, competing for carp kill in the shallows, and spiralling in a 
thermal above Ten Islands. Waterfowl, shorebirds & great blues foraged in 
and along marshy shoals; we saw and heard songbirds along the treeliine 
above the shore.

Best birds:
Wood duck (39, mostly in mating pairs)
Great blue heron (38)
Double-crested cormorant (100+)
Green heron (2 - FOS for us)
Osprey (6)
Bald eagle (6)
Red-shouldered hawk
American kestrel
American coot (5)
Greater yellowlegs (5)
Lesser yellowlegs
Least sandpiper (16)
Tree, barn & cliff swallows
Brown thrasher
American pipit
Yellow-rumped warbler (5)
Prothonotary warbler


Technical note:  We were powered through deep water by our new trolling 
motor and deep cycle battery ($250 at Bass Pro Shops), a quiet and efficient 
necessity for extensive flatwater birding. Otherwise, we got plenty of 
exercise on the windy water.

Douglas lake should begin to flood Rankin Bottoms by next weekend.

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Cocke county TN


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