[TN-Bird] Rankin WMA: Godwits, Avocet, Knot, and Phalaropes
- From: Rack Cross <rackcross@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: Bristol-birds <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, TN-birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 23:53:55 -0400
8 SEP 2011
Rankin WMA
Cocke Co., TN
Rack Cross
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An outstanding birding session was enjoyed this evening at Rankin Bottoms
ending only due to fading daylight.
Below is a compiled list of Rankin WMA observations (unless otherwise
noted) of the following birders: Wallace and Carolyn Coffey, Mike Sanders,
Dave Worley, Jerry Thornhill, David Kirschke, and Rack Cross.
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Canada Goose - many
N. Shoveler - 8
Great Blue Heron - many
Great Egret - many
Green Heron - 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron - 10
Cooper's Hawk - 1
Merlin - 1
Peregrine Falcon - 2
Black-bellied Plover - 5
Semipalmated Plover - 15
Killdeer - several
*American Avocet* *- 1*
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Greater Yellowlegs - 3
Willet - 1
Lesser Yellowlegs - 25
*HUDSONIAN GODWIT - 1*
*Marbled Godwit - 1*
Ruddy Turnstone - 3
*Red Knot -1*
Sanderling - 3
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 20
Least Sandpiper - many
White-rumped Sandpiper - 6
Baird's Sandpiper - 2
Pectoral Sandpiper - 5
Stilt Sandpiper - 11
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1
Short-billed Dowitcher - 4
Long-billed Dowitcher - 2
Wilson's Phalorope - 3
*Red-necked Phalarope* *- 2*
Laughing Gull - 1 (Dutch Bottoms)
Ring-billed Gull - 40 (Dutch Bottoms)
Herring Gull - 2 (Dutch Bottoms)
Lesser Black-backed Gull -1 (Dutch Bottoms)
Caspian Tern - 1 (reported by Scott Somershoe)
Black Tern - 1
Common Tern - 13 (Dutch Bottoms)
Forster's Tern - 1 (Dutch Bottoms)
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'Til we bird again,
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Rack Cross
Blountville, TN
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