[TN-Bird] Ibis Flock - Rankin

Rankin Area, Cocke & Hamblen counties, 9/24/09, 5-8 PM, by canoe
Douglas Lake elevation: 990.2 ft.

We set out from the coal tipple and traveled about a mile up the  
Nolichucky River to an open  mudflat below Leeper's Ferry Rd. (Hamblen  
county) and logged an assortment of shorebirds there.  Returning to  
the French Broad, we motored up to the Holt Town Rd. pond (Cocke  
county), where dead sedge covers the exposed terrain, and found fewer  
birds.  We  returned to the Rankin Bottoms embayment and found great  
egrets roosting low on buttonbushes at the farthest south end.  A half- 
dozen ibises flew in to join  others on a muddy shore behind the  
egrets.  We usually see an ibis or two on Douglas Lake every summer,  
but this group of 15 may be the biggest ever recorded there.

Ibis flock photo:  http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/115348503/original

Partial list:(Cocke county: C., Hamblen county: H.):

Great egret (190, C.)
   http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/115348614
   http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/115350120
Little blue heron (2 juv., C.)
White ibis (15 juv., C.)
Osprey (10C., 2H.))
Killdeer (45, H , 28, C )
Lesser Yellowlegs (1, H., 1, C.)
Solitary sandpiper (3, H.)
Spotted sandpiper (5, H., 1, C.)
Semipalmated sandpiper (1. H. - FOS)
Least sandpiper (15, H., 1, C.)
Pectoral sandpiper (5, H.)
Swallows (1000+ - mixed species roosting on power line crossing  
counties)
  http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/115350751/large

Michel Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN


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