[TN-Bird] Re: Rankin area - 9/19/09

  • From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "michael sledjeski" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 11:55:45 -0400

To my knowledge, this is just the second record of
Yellow-crowned Night-Heron at the Rankin Bottoms
& upper Douglas Lake area.

The other was 19 Jul 2002.

Nice find.

Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN


> [Original Message]
> From: michael sledjeski <mtnsylva@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date: 9/21/2009 12:49:59 AM
> Subject: [TN-Bird] Re: Rankin area - 9/19/09
>
> Don Miller pointed out that the image of a juv. "black-crowned night- 
> heron" on the list I posted looked a lot more like a yellow-crowned  
> night-heron to him.  I have to agree, and I've corrected the photos:
>     http://www.pbase.com/sylvafoto/image/117496818
>     http://www.pbase.com/image/117514083/medium
>
> I manage to pull off a major tn-bird i.d. blunder at least once a year  
> -  maybe that will be the last for 2009.
>
> Thanks, Don
>
> Michael Sledjeski
> Del Rio TN
>
> > Douglas Lake, Cocke & Jefferson county, 9/19/09, 2-5PM,  by canoe
> > Lake elevation: 981.2
> >
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