[TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms (Cocke Co., TN), August 27, 2006

August 27, 2006
[posting date: August 28, 2006]
Rankin Bottoms and vicinity (Cocke Co., TN)

A few members of Greeneville TOS were joined by several other regional birders 
at Rankin Bottoms yesterday afternoon.  Present in one group were Rob Biller, 
Dianne Draper, Jim Faunce, Leslie Gibbens, Don Holt, Jim Holt, Ron Lapp, Rose 
Lapp, Don Miller, Michael Sledjeski, and Allan Trently.  A Knoxville-area 
contingent included Boyd Sharp, Gail Clendenen, and Steve Clendenen.  (There 
may have been others present as well.  Please accept my apologies If I omitted 
anyone.)  

All observations were made from shore except for some made by Michael and 
Leslie from a canoe.  I didn't get their numbers (except for Wilson's Snipe), 
so the figures below reflect my own notes.  As is often the case at Rankin, 
viewing was difficult due to the great distance between the tipple area and the 
mudflats.

Highlights included the following (conservatively counted): 

Double-crested Cormorant (27)

Great Blue Heron (9)

Great Egret (134)

Little Blue Heron (22)

Cattle Egret (12)

Green Heron (2)

Black-crowned Night-Heron (8)

White Ibis (immature)

Wood Stork (immature)

Osprey

Bald Eagle

Semipalmated Plover (8)

Killdeer (120+)

Lesser Yellowlegs

Willet (2)

Spotted Sandpiper (3)

Semipalmated Sandpiper (20)

Western Sandpiper

Least Sandpiper (10+)

Pectoral Sandpiper (43)

Stilt Sandpiper (6)

Buff-breasted Sandpiper

Short-billed Dowitcher (3)

Wilson's Snipe (seen by Leslie and Michael from canoe)

Eastern Kingbird (8)

Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

Also seen were dozens of small sandpipers at a distance too great to allow for 
identification. 

Don Miller
Greeneville, Greene Co., TN

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