[TN-Bird] Rankin: Avocet

Douglas Lake, Cocke county, 7/12/09, 5-8 PM, by canoe
Lake elevation: 991.6

We, along with Larry Ball & Kristen Roberts,  paddled from the coal  
tipple at Rankin Bottoms to the backwaters along Holt Town Rd., where  
some of the lake's highest elevation mudflats are located.
There we found an odd trio of migratory shorebirds among the usual  
killdeer crowd.  We also got to watch a juvenile osprey taking flight  
from its nest after prompting by its parents. Near the end of our  
trip, a big flock of great egrets flew in from the Nolichucky River   
to join the already-crowded roost across east of the tipple.

Photos:  http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/114911948  - & following.

Partial list:
Canada goose (14, adult that flew off, another with 12 goslings left  
behind)
Wood duck (5)
Great egret (150+)
Green heron (9)
Black-cr. Night-Heron (11)
Osprey (8)
Killdeer (42)
AMERICAN AVOCET (first of 2009)
Solitary sandpiper (first-of-season)
Short-billed dowitcher (breeding adult Atlantic, FOS)
Prothonotary warbler (2)

Michael Sledjeski & Lesllie Gibbens

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