[TN-Bird] Rankin - 11/03/09

Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co., 11/03/09; 2-4 PM; by car
Douglas elevation: 978.8 ft

This lake elevation, unusually high for November, is as good as it  
gets for viewing from shore here; most of the shorebirds were less  
than 200 ft. from the road across the floodplain.  More were spread  
along the long mudbar viewed from the opening past the tipple.

We couldn't find the dowitcher we'd seen on 10/29.  After studying  my  
photos, Mike Todd and Don Miller are inclined to agree with me that it  
was LONG-BILLED DOWITCHER, uncommon in this region.  Four images  
start  at:
http://www.pbase.com/image/119001172/medium

Partial list:
Pied-billed grebe
D.-b. cormorant (95)
Killdeer (28)
Greater yellowlegs (5)
Least sandpiper (45)
Pectoral sandpiper (6)
Dunlin (92)
Stilt sandpiper (4)
Winter wren
Yellow-rumped warbler (8)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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