[TN-Bird] Ten Islands 9/23/07

Cocke & Jefferson counties, Sunday 4:00-8:00 PM

Douglas Lake (@955.6 ft.)  has receded to Walters Bridge.  We put in our 
canoe at the Leadvale ramp and paddled on the French Broad River through the 
Ten Islands area, then motored  to the south end of Dutch Bottoms - a seven 
mile trip.  It was too dark to continue around Taylor's Bend, the hottest 
birding spot on upper Douglas Lake lately.

Least sandpipers were dispersed here & there all along the riverbanks, some 
hunkering in depressions, or huddling by driftwood.  We probably missed 
quite a few.  Except for 3 SANDERLINGS, we didn't see much at Dutch Bottoms, 
the usual mallards, some killdeer, cormorants, and great blues.

Ten Islands' birds:

Green-winged teal (2)
Pied-billed grebe
Great blue heron (18)
Great egret (40)
Black-crowned night heron (5)
Osprey
Bald eagle

Semipalmated plover
Killdeer (105)
Greater yellowlegs
Lesser yellowlegs
Spotted sandpiper
Least sandpiper (58)
Pectoral sandpiper

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN

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