[Bristol-Birds] Rankin: eagle crew, new birds

  • From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
  • To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:50:40 -0400

We checked out Rankin Bottoms on foot today. Douglas Lake has risen rapidly (to 981.5) and half the flats are flooded. The road to & through the coal tipple is still high and dry, and in excellent condition - graded, widened, and graveled. Canada geese, mallards, blue-winged teal, wood ducks, double-crested cormorants, great blue herons, cliff & tree swallows, & red-winged blackbirds were plentiful. Also:

Northern shoveler
Redhead (4)  Diving ducks? They were in grassy shallows with the teals)
Great egret (FOS, with breeding plumage flowing in the breeze)
Osprey (6)
Bald eagle (5 immatures, perched around the gate on the old RR bed)
American coot (8)
Greater yellowlegs(42)
Lesser yellowlegs (37)
Solitary sandpiper (FOS)
Red-headed woodpecker
Eastern kingbird (FOS)
Blue-gray gnatcatcher, nesting
Brown-headed cowbird
Yellow-rumped warbler (13)
Palm warbler
Prothonotary warbler (9)
Savannah sparrow
Orchard oriole (FOS)
Baltimore oriole (FOS)

Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Cocke county TN


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