Douglas Lake, Cocke county, 8/17/15, 7-8:30pm, by canoe
Lake elevation: 986.7 ft - mudflats expanding, but viewing from shore limited
Launch delayed by rain, so we couldn't do a complete survey of the area, but
shorebirds were plentiful - 11 species.
Partial list:
Wood Duck (28)
Double-crested Comorant (200+)
Great Egret (100+)
Little Blue Heron (2)
Snowy Egret
Black-crowned Night-heron (5)
Green Heron (19)
Osprey (4)
Killdeer (90)
Semipalmated Plover (6) - FOS
Spotted Sandpiper (6)
Solitary Sandpiper
Greater Yellowlegs -FOS
Lesser Yellowlegs (8)
Semipalmated Sandpiper (4) - FOS
Least Sandpiper (45)
Western Sandpiper - FOS
Pectoral Sandpiper (26)
Sanderling - FOS
Ring-billed Gull (4)
Caspian Tern -FOS
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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