[TN-Bird] Rankin 8/15/08

Rankin Bottoms & Ten Islands, Cocke county; 8/15/08, 5:00-8:00 PM, by  
car & canoe
Douglas Lake elevation: 976 ft.

Leslie G. and I checked out  the well-drained southern end of Rankin  
Bottoms, then joined Rick Knight near the northern end, where there's  
still a broad expanse of mud.  Rick & I then went by canoe downlake  
into the Ten Islands section, still flooded, but shallow. We returned  
for a closer look at the  Rankin Bottoms mudflats, which had a  
greater concentration of shorebirds.

Partial list:

Wood duck (15)
Double-crested cormorant (ca. 50)
Great Blue Heron (45)
Little Blue Heron (3 juvenile)
Great egret (200+, more than ever, flying to 2 separate roosts)
Green heron (18)
Black-crowned night-heron (26, about half of them juvenile)
White ibis (1 juv., flying to roost among the great egrets)
Osprey (3)
Red-tailed hawk
Semipalmated plover (6)
Killdeer (250+)
Lesser yellowlegs
Spotted sandpiper (8)
Semipalmated sandpiper (45)
Western sandpiper
Least sandpiper (100+)
Pectoral sandpiper (54)
Short-billed dowitcher (2 juv.)
   image @ http://www.pbase.com/image/101781064/original

Many thanks to Rick for an advance copy of his new NE TN bird  
checklist - an outstanding upgrade of the essential original.

Michael Sledjeski
Del Rio TN



  
  
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