[TN-Bird] Rankin - more August species

Cocke & Hamblen counties, 8/14/10; 2:30 - 6:00 PM, by canoe
Douglas Lake elevation: 987.4 (more mudflats exposed; viewing from  
shore not good yet, but improving)

We launched earlier than usual, and found an assortment of shorebirds  
on the mudflats near the WMA entrance.  After exploring a few other  
hot spots, we returned after a couple of hours to try to confirm  
whether one bird was a Baird's or a White-rumped sandpiper.   We only  
found a few foraging killdeer , and 2 Lesser Yellowlegs standing very  
still against a dead buttonbush in the shadows.  The scene looked  
suspiciously like the aftermath of a peregrine raid.

New species for this August  included SNOWY EGRET, WESTERN SANDPIPER,  
& CASPIAN TERN.

Partial list:
Canada goose (150+, new high for his season)
Snowy Egret
Great egret (86 foraging; we see more at sunset, flying in to roost)
Little blue heron (2 juv.)
Green heron (27, new high for 2010)
Osprey (13)
Semipalmated plover
Killdeer (60+)
Lesser Yellowlegs (2)
Solitary Sandpiper (3)
Spotted Sandpiper (14 - new 2010 high)
Western Sandpiper (2)
Least Sandpiper (29)
Pectoral Sandpiper (16)
Ring-billed Gull (28)
Caspian Tern

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN







  
  
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