[TN-Bird] Laughing Gull, Avocet at Douglas Lake, Cocke Co.

From: jmpawli88@xxxxxxx
To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 22:34:36 -0400
There was a juvenile Laughing Gull and a basic (winter) plumaged American 
Avocet sitting with about 2 dozen Ring-billed Gulls along the shoreline of 
Douglas Lake just opposite where Rankin Hill Rd. T's into Route 32/25E this 
late morning (Thurs. 8/26).  The Laughing Gull I believe I saw earlier in the 
morning at Rankin Bottoms flying high overhead heading SW although at the time 
I could only get binoculars on it and see that it was a 
Laughing/Franklin's-type, neither of which I really expected to see there.  
Both birds eventually flew off with the Laughing heading south out over the 
lake and the Avocet actually putting down on the water out in the middle of the 
lake with most of the Ring-bills.  Highlights at Rankin included 2 adult 
White-rumpd Sandpipers by themselves at the very south end of the bottoms.  
Other shorebirds included 40+ Killdeer, 5+ L. Yellowlegs, Semi Plover, 2+ Semi 
Sandpipers, 4 Least Sandpipers, 2 Spotted Sandpipers.  Other birds at the 
bottoms were Prothonotary Warbler, Scarlet Tanager, Pileated Woodpecker, 70+ 
Great Egrets, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Black and Turkey Vultures, and 2 
Osprey.
 
I later checked out Panther Creek State Park on the other side of I-81 to the 
north and came across a few nice groups of songbirds that included Summer 
Tanager, Wood Thrush, Veery, 2 Black-and-White Warblers, Canada Warbler, 2 
Hooded Warblers,  and American Redstart.
 
 
Jim Pawlicki
Buffalo, NY
(currently visiting Knoxville, TN) 


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[TN-Bird] Laughing Gull, Avocet at Douglas Lake, Cocke Co.

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