[TN-Bird] Taylor's Bend 9/15/07

  • From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
  • To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 11:23:05 -0400

Douglas Lake (@956.8 ft), Cocke & Jefferson counties
9/15/07, 4:30-7:30 PM, clear & turning cool

We launched our canoe at the south end of Dutch Bottoms and headed across to 
Taylor's (or just "Taylor") Bend.  There were just a few shorebirds and 
about 30 great egrets and great blues at Dutch Bottoms.  Most of the birds 
that we saw were at the Bend, especially in the shallow embayment that opens 
to the north.

Peep  numbers were way down, and we didn't see most of the uncommon species 
(willet, black-bellied & American golden plover, Baird's & buff-breasted SP, 
short-billed dowitcher) that were present on 9/12. The windbirds  
disappeared  that evening  when a peregrine falcon raced into the area and 
captured a peep. They returned after a while but seemed agitated, constantly 
shifting & regrouping.  The cold  front likely influenced the turnover -with 
more yellowlegs and pectoral sandpipers  moving in.

Partial list (9/15, Taylor's Bend):
Blue-winged teal (many)
Northern shoveler (2)
Green-winged teal (15)
Double-crested cormorant (35)
Great blue heron (45)
Great egret (200+)
White ibis (1 imm.)
Bald eagle (1 adult, 1 imm.)

Semipalmated plover
Killdeer (50+, lowest number in a while)
Greater yellowlegs (6)
Lesser yellowlegs (75)
Spotted sandpiper
Ruddy turnstone
Least sandpiper (2)
Semipalmated sandpiper
**other peeps (10, in flight)
Pectoral sandpiper (148)
Stilt sandpiper (26)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN


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