We went out by canoe in the evening and got a look at the bottoms from the river. We saw all the birds Rick reported, plus a few, with closer looks at the peeps, and a nice close-up of the golden plover. Best find for us was a first-of-the-year WHITE IBIS, a juvenile, in the midst of the 50+ great egrets on the riverbank. Douglas Lake elevation is now 958 feet.
Our totals: Black-bellied plover Am. golden-plover Semipalmated plover (4) Killdeer (150+) Greater yellowlegs (10) Lesser yellowlegs (36) Solitary sandpiper (4) Willet Spotted sandpiper (7) Semipalmated sandpiper (4) Western sandpiper (12) Least sandpiper (15) *unclassified peeps (10) Pectoral sandpiper (15) Buff-breasted sandpiper (7) Short-billed dowitcher Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxxTo: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>Subject: [TN-Bird] Dutch Bottoms Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2007 16:04:30 -0400 5 Sep 2007 Dutch Bottoms on upper Douglas Lake Cocke Co., TN the lake is down a bit more & the viewing distance across the flats to spots where shorebirds concentrate is now vast, almost impossible for birding from shore; could not see some of the river-channel side of several islands, so likely missed some birds. Black-bellied Plover - 1 Am. Golden-Plover - 1 Solitary Sandpiper - 4 Willet - 1 Lsr. Yellowlegs - 18 Pectoral Sandpiper - 15 peep sp. - 30+ (too distant to ID) Buff-br. Sandpiper - 4 Short-billed Dowitcher - 1 Rick Knight Johnson City, TN
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