[TN-Bird] Re: Rankin Bottoms Saturday
- From: michael sledjeski <mbsledjeski@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:10:04 -0400
Photo link for the cattle egret wasn't quite right. Correction:
http://www.pbase.com/image/150831530
Also, I got a clear daytime view of a Great Horned Owl near the mount of the
Nolichucky a week ago- http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/150831762
Michael Sledjeski
On Jun 16, 2013, at 11:08 PM, michael sledjeski wrote:
> Douglas Lake, Cocke county, 5/15/13, 6-8pm, by canoe
> Elevation: 997' (3' above "full pool")
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> CORMORANT vs. OSPREY - When the cottonwood limb supporting their nest broke
> off, an Osprey pair relocated to a tree already occupied by cormorants with
> 14 nests.
> That was a month ago, and now there are no cormorants, in or out of nests, in
> that tree. Today, we watched the ospreys bully a dozen cormorants perched in
> the old cottonwood. They would fly directly at them, swerve at the last
> millisecond, sometimes bump against them as they swooped by. In a few
> minutes, all of the cormorants, one by one, flew downriver - where, across
> from McCowan's Creek, six Great Blue Heron nests were surrounded by many
> cormorants, with their own nests, in peaceful coexistence.
>
> <IMG_4671_3.jpg>
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> Partial list:
> Wood Duck, many, with ducklings
> Double-crested Cormorant (300+, 18 nests)
> Great Blue Heron (25)
> Great Egret (15)
> CATTLE EGRET
> photo at -http://www.pbase.com/image/150831530
> Green Heron (3)
> Black-crowned Night-Heron (3)
> Osprey (9)
> AMERICAN COOT
> Yellow-billed Cuckoo (7)
> Eastern Kingbird (4)
> Tree Swallows
> Cliff Swallows
> Prothonotary Warbler (9)
> Orchard Oriole
> Baltimore Oriole
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> Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
> Del Rio TN
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