[TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms 6/28
- From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 07:24:06 -0400
We canoed around the Rankin Bottoms embayment in CocKe county yesterday from
6:45 til 8:30. The numbers of fish-eating birds are escalating; songbirds
were less conspicuous.
Wood duck (17 adults, 26 ducklings)
Mallard (7 adults, 6 ducklings)
Pied-billed grebe
Double-crested cormorant (106)
Great blue heron (17 adults, 5 nestlings in 4 nests)
Great egret (85)
Green heron (21)
Black-crowned night heron (23)
Osprey (9 adults, 4 nestlings in 2 nests)
Yellow-billed cuckoo (3)
Tree and cliff swallows (100s)
Wood thrush
Prothonotary warbler (5)
Common yellowthroat (2)
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio, Cocke County TN
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