[tn-bird] Re: Roseate Spoonbill heading downriver to Cocke County.

The spoonbill was seen loitering in the same vicinity today, at noon. That pink 
does capture one's attention.

Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio, Cocke County TN  
  
----- Original Message -----
From: James Brooks
Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 3:43 PM
To: Tenn Birds
Subject: [tn-bird] Roseate Spoonbill heading downriver to Cocke County.
  

I found the immature Roseate Spoonbill from Kinser Park, last seen  
Tuesday, quite a ways downriver on Sunday.
It was just of U.S. Highway 25E in Douglas Lake at the same location  
Rick Knight posted on Tuesday as a site for a Lesser Black-backed Gull.
Cross into Cocke County on 25E, and just past the turnoff onto Rankin  
Hill Road, that takes one to Rankin Bottoms, and just before the Dutch  
Bottoms Baptist Church is an unmarked public lake access. The lake  
bottom is solid enough to easily park on the gravel and walk to the old  
Highway 25E out in the lake and scope the many Great Egrets and Great  
Blue Herons from there. The spoonbill is pretty easily spotted.
When I saw him Tuesday at Kinser Park, it  was alone, and all the Great  
Egrets it was consorting with had moved on. My guess is that the  
Spoonbill and the Great Egret winter migration will follow the river  
west and south, passing through Knoxville into the Tennessee River, and  
then south to Chattanooga and into Alabama.
If it tarries long enough on the way, maybe it can hook up with the  
Whooping Cranes when they arrive at Hiwassee and let the ultra-lite  
guide the whole bunch to Florida.
Wouldn't that be cool?
BTW, I didn't see the Lesser Black-backed Gull.
James Brooks
Jonesborough, TN

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