[TN-Bird] Ten Islands, Douglas Lake

Cocke county, 3/27/08, by canoe, 12:30- 4:00 PM
Douglas Lake elevation: 972.5 ft.

We launched at Walters Bridge and disembarked on a grassy flat half  
way back to the Leadvale ramp.  A long inlet between the flat and the  
shore provides an excellent refuge for waterbirds - no nearby roads  
and too shallow for most boats. >>>We spotted 2 more active osprey  
nests (one on Walters Bridge, another on a Dutch Bottoms silo), for a  
total of 8 in the general area.

Highlights:
Wood duck (48)
Gadwall (22)
Am. widgeon (15)
Am. black duck (4)
Mallard (60)
Blue-winged teal (220)
Northern shoveler (4)
Green-winged teal (145)
Ring-necked duck (4)
Lesser scaup (6)
Hooded merganser (4)
Pied-billed grebe (3)
Double-crested cormorant (85)
Great blue heron (19)
Osprey (8)
Bald eagle (3 imm.)
Am. coot (9)
Killdeer (9)
Greater yellowlegs (5)
Lesser yellowlegs (16)
Solitary sandpiper
Least sandpiper
Pectoral sandpiper (4)
Bonaparte's gull (16
Ring-billed gull (22)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens





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