[TN-Bird] Rankin Bottoms Ruff and Lesser Black-backed Gull still present Sunday evening

From: "Welsh, Christopher J E" <cwelsh@xxxxxxx>
To: "tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 29 Aug 2011 03:55:17 +0000
Lesser Black-backed Gull was hanging out on the bar visible from the dead end 
of the road out to Rankin Bottoms, Cocke County, at sunset.  20-30 Ring-billed 
Gulls and two Caspian Terns there as well.

The Ruff was busy feeding amongst the Pectoral Sandpipers and Killdeer about 
half way between the end of the road and the Coal Tipple.  I missed the Ruff 
when scanning with the scope from shore, but it suddenly appeared 30 yrds away 
when I was out in kayak taking pictures of the common birds.  Got decent 
(ID-able) photos of Ruff and L B-b Gull.

Seemed to be a lot of shorebirds with vast majority being Killdeer and Pectoral 
Sandpipers.  Saw 2 Baird's Sandpipers, 2 Buff-breasted Sandpipers, dowitcher, 
and Black-bellied Plover and most of the species mentioned in Rick's post from 
Saturday (below).  Did not see the Laughing Gull.

Old road out through the mudflats is still mostly underwater.

Chris Welsh
Knoxville
6:00-8:30 pm Sunday 8/28

[TN-Bird] Ruff, Lsr. Black-backed Gull, etc at Rankin Bottom

From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [TN-Bird] Ruff, Lsr. Black-backed Gull, etc at Rankin Bottoms
Date: Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:59:02 -0400

27 Aug 2011
Rankin Bottoms, Cocke Co., TN
(on upper Douglas Lake)

14 members of the Elizabethton Bird Club (Herndon Chapter, TOS)
also Don Miller & Michael Sledjeski

N. Shoveler - 4
D-c. Cormorant - 25+
Great Egret - 75+
Osprey - 2
N. Harrier - 1
Semipalmated Plover - 15
Spotted Sandpiper - 15
Solitary Sandpiper - 2
Gr. Yellowlegs - 1
Lsr. Yellowlegs - 10
Semipalmated Sandpiper - 30+
Western Sandpiper - 2
Least Sandpiper - 60+
Baird's Sandpiper - 1
Pectoral Sandpiper - 60+
Stilt Sandpiper - 4
Buff-breasted Sandpiper - 1
Short-billed Dowitcher - 1
RUFF -  1  ad. female  - - 3rd record there
Wilson's Phalarope - 2
Laughing Gull - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 90+
LESSER BLACK-BACKED GULL -  1,   1st winter  - - 3rd record there;
this same bird was seen there on 22 Aug by Knight & Sledjeski.

plus: Great Blue Herons, Green Herons, Wood Ducks, Killdeer, Kingfisher.

###############
Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN


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