[TN-Bird] Rankin waterbirds
- From: michael sledjeski <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 9 May 2009 11:06:27 -0400
Rankin Bottoms, Cocke county, Thursday,5/7/09, 2-5 PM, by canoe
Lake elevation: 989.5 ft - unusually high for this date
Greater White-fronted Goose
Canada Goose (150+, including 8 goslings)
Wood duck (28)
Mallard (18)
Blue-winged teal
Double-crested cormorant (27)
Great Blue Heron (22)
Great Egret (25)
Green heron (2)
Black-crowned Night Heron
Osprey (8) - 2 new occupied nests on the riverbank
Bald eagle (1 adult, 1 juv.)
image at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/112314670
American Coot
SANDHILL CRANE - a late adult in summer plumage
Killdeer (14; 3 were swimming like ducks - a strange sight.)
Spotted Sandpiper (2)
Solitary Sandpiper (2)
Greater Yellowlegs (9)
Lesser Yellowlegs (12)
Semipalmated Sandpiper
Least Sandpiper (5)
Short-billed dowitcher
image at http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/112314915
Ring-billed Gull (6)
Caspian Tern
Forster's Tern (3)
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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