[TN-Bird] Cocke co./Rankin area
- From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2007 22:17:41 -0400
April 17, 2006; 1:00-5:00 PM
We swung by the CSI chemical plant, at the corner of Industrial Rd. and
Chemwod Drive, to look at an OSPREY NEST we'd heard about last week. Sure
enough, it covered the top of a tower next to a settling pond, with an
osprey peering back at us. It's located about 1/4 mile from the Pigeon River
& is active nest #6 in Cocke county for 2007.
We spotted about 40 CHIMNEY SWIFTS above a corn stubble field around the
corner from the nest.
Birds seen in the Rankin area, from the Rankin Bridge to Rankin Bottoms,
including Brown Hollow Rd (partial list):
Wood duck (36 - mostly in pairs)
Blue-winged teal (85)
Northern shoveler (2)
Green-winged teal (6)
Double-cr. cormorant (39)
Great blue heron (15)
Great egret
Osprey (7)
Bald eagle (3 imm.)
Sharp-shinned hawk
Broad-winged hawk
Killdeer (3)
Greater yellowlegs (7)
Lesser yellowlegs (26)
Spotted sandpiper
Solitary sandpiper
Tree swallow (200+)
Cliff awallow (100+ at Rankin Bridge; 40 at Valentine Bridge on Hwy 321)
Palm warbler
Savannah warbler
Swamp warbler (2-nesting pair)
Douglas Lake elevation: 973.6- coverage at Rankin Bottoms negligible.
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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