Douglas Lake, Cocke county, 4/24/15, 5-8pm, by canoe
Lake elevation: 985.9 ft.
Low killdeer numbers (as David Kirschke noted on 8/23), suggesting that a
falcon had come through, but other shorebirds are arriving. Many were around
the Gate Pond, out of sight from the shore.
Partial list:
Wood Duck (8)
Dbl. Crested Cormorant (240)
Great Egret (90)
Little Blue Heron
Black-crowned Night-heron (9)
Green Heron (4)
Osprey (6)
Semipalmated Plover (9)
Killdeer (3)
Lesser Yellowlegs (12)
Spotted Sandpiper (4)
Solitary Sandpiper
Least sandpiper (27)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (6)
Western Sandpiper
Pectoral Sandpiper (8)
Sanderling (5)
Ring-billed Gull (60)
Caspian Tern
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN