[TN-Bird] Rankin 8/29/04

We did some birding today in the Rankin area while leading a Sierra Club group 
on a canoe tour.  Shorebird numbers are increasing, but the the lake is still 
too high (986+) for birding from the shore; Labor Day weekend should be better 
for dry-land birding.  Dowitchers and pectoral sandpipers are now present, 
peeps are increasing.  We didn't notice any Eastern Kingbirds, but we finally 
got a good look at a willow flycatcher. Most notably seen:
80+ peeps, mostly least sandpipers, with fewer western and semipalmated
8 pectoral sandpipers
2 short-billed dowitchers & 1 ? dowitcher spp 
13 lesser yellowlegs
3 semipalmated plovers
100+ killdeer
2 solitary sandpipers
1 Caspian tern
1 lonely redwinged blackbird
80+ great egrets
28 green herons, at least 10 immature
21 black-crowned night herons, 6 immature
7 ospreys
50+ double-crested cormorants
3 prothonotary warblers
2 yellow-billed cuckoos 
1 willow flycatcher 
1 red tailed hawk

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Cocke County TN
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