See photos at:
https://plus.google.com/photos/115073392272552852165/albums/6197814741579649105
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Rankin Bottoms, Cocke, Tennessee, US
Sep 22, 2015 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM
Protocol: Traveling
2.0 mile(s)
Comments: By kayak. Put in at Leadvale ramp. Lake level at 978.1.
11 species (+1 other taxa)
Mallard 4
Pied-billed Grebe 1
Double-crested Cormorant 80
Great Blue Heron 6
Green Heron 1
Black-crowned Night-Heron 11
Black Vulture 115
American Avocet 1 Have seen them here before, always a single bird.
Spotted Sandpiper 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 2
Stilt Sandpiper 2
swallow sp. 15 Seen about 8:30 AM in a small flock circling over the lake.
Ten Islands, Cocke, Tennessee, US
Sep 22, 2015 9:30 AM - 12:00 PM
Protocol: Traveling
3.5 mile(s)
Comments: By kayak. Put in at Leadvale ramp. Lake level at 978.1.
15 species
Canada Goose 25
Mallard 2
Double-crested Cormorant 15
Great Blue Heron 12
Great Egret 45
Black Vulture 3
Osprey 1
Lesser Yellowlegs 3
Least Sandpiper 3
Buff-breasted Sandpiper 2 With other shore-birds. see photos at:
https://plus.google.com/photos/115073392272552852165/albums/6197814741579649105
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Pectoral Sandpiper 6 With mixed flock of shorebirds.
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Laughing Gull 2 With flock of ring-billed gulls.
Ring-billed Gull 85 Large flock seen on a small sandbar in the lake.
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Common Tern 1 With Forster's terns and ring-billed gulls.
https://picasaweb.google.com/115073392272552852165/RankinBottoms092215
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Forster's Tern 6
Ron Shrieves
Knox County, TN
