[TN-Bird] Rankin & Dutch Bottoms - 2/19/07
- From: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
- To: TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2007 10:53:04 -0500
Upper Douglas Lake, Cocke county
2:00 to 5:00 PM, 02/19/07
Lake elevation: 949.3'
We checked out several areas around Dutch Bottoms (DB) by car, then walked
and drove along the old RR bed at Rankin Bottoms (RB) from the Leadvale
crossing to beyond the gate to the south. There's no "lake" in these areas
now; the broad barrens of Dutch Bottoms held little standing water; Rankin
Bottoms is a big cocklebur field with a couple of ponds and a shallow creek.
A partial list (RB, unless noted otherwise)
Canada Goose (2)
Mallard (14)
Green-winged teal (8 - DB)
Hooded merganser (3)
Great blue heron (24, & 7 DB)
Red-tailed hawk (2 - DB)
Am. kestrel
Merlin
Killdeer (15, & 6-DB)
Wilson's snipe
Ring-billed gull (2 & 14 -DB)
Downy woodpecker (5)
N. flicker (6)
Pileated woodpecker
Eastern phoebe (3)
American pipit
Eastern meadowlark (3- DB)
Michael Sledjeski & Leslie Gibbens
Del Rio TN
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