[TN-Bird] Re: Rankin birds returning
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>, "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,"petewyatt" <pete.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 01:49:50 -0400
Michael:
Please include the county for which you see birds. Also please, when you
sign your name, put the city (town) and state abbreviation where you live
following your name. We are always having new subscribers come on the list
and many of them have no idea whatsoever where some of these places are or
where you or I may be. It is just unfriendly, unfair and unproductive to
write insider messages and leave them on the outside because they are not
yet in the know.
We need to get together sometime and let you show me some birds from canoe.
I would love to band any of the breeding colonies or even young Ospreys if
we can find a way to get to any of them. Take care.
Let's go birding....
Wallace Coffey
Moderator TN-Birds
Bristol, TN
----- Original Message -----
From: "michael sylva" <mtnsylva@xxxxxxx>
To: "TN-bird" <TN-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; "petewyatt" <pete.wyatt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 2004 9:45 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Rankin birds returning
> Douglas Lake has risen past the coal tipple at Rankin Bottoms, and there
were plenty of birds there this morning. Most unusual was a female
Long-tailed Duck, a first for the area. She stayed close to a mallard
drake, and followed him when he flew around, then downriver. There were
several gangs of Yellowlegs, about 20 Greater and 40+ Lesser. We saw 4
Pectoral Sandpipers, and a couple other similar shorebirds that we couldn't
I.d. Also:
> Blue-winged Teal: 75+, everywhere in the grassy shallows
> Wood Duck: a group of 6 pairs, plus 4 separate pairs
> Double-crested Cormorant: 100+
> Great Blue Heron: 18
> Great Egret: 2
> Green Heron: 2
> Osprey: 3 (one grabbed a bright red carp and hauled it like a banner back
to the nest)
> Bald Eagle: 1 2nd-year
> Common Snipe: 2
> Ring-billed Gulls: 100+
> Prothonotary Warbler: 8
> Yellow-rumped Warbler: 5
> White-eyed vireo:1
> Some Eastern Kingbirds, Tree Swallows, Downy Woodpeckers, Turkey Vultures,
and, of course, Canada Geese, Mallards, and Red-winged Blackbirds.
>
> Check it out, let us know what you find there.
>
> Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens
>
> Michael Sledjeski and Leslie Gibbens
>
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