[Bristol-Birds] Rankin today
- From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 9 Sep 2011 21:00:14 -0400
9 Sep 2011
Rankin & Dutch Bottoms on upper Douglas Lake
Cocke Co., TN
No sign of the Hudsonian Godwit or Red Knot.
Blue-wg. Teal - 40+
N. Shoveler - 20
Cormorant - 100+
Great Egret - 150+
Little Blue Heron - 1 imm. - - in upper hidden ponds
Osprey - 2
Peregrine Falcon - 1 ad + 1 imm. - - actively hunting shorebirds
Sora - 1 - - flushed from cockle-burs
Black-bellied Plover - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 20
Am. Avocet - 1
Solitary Sandpiper - 1
Gr. Yellowlegs - 1
Willet - 1
Lsr. Yellowlegs - 35+
Marbled Godwit - 1
Ruddy Turnstone - 3
Sanderling - 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 40+
Western Sandpiper - 1
Least Sandpiper - 30+
White-rumped Sandpiper - 3
Baird's Sandpiper - 2
Pectoral Sandpiper - 30+
Stilt Sandpiper - 15
Dowitcher sp. - 5
Wilson's Phalarope - 3
Laughing Gull - 2
Ring-billed Gull - 140
Lsr. Black-backed Gull - 1
Caspian Tern - 18
Other observers may have seen additional species.
Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
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