13 Aug 2007 Dutch Bottoms & Ten Islands, on upper Douglas Lake Cocke & Jefferson Cos., TN Michael Sledjeski & I checked these areas this afternoon, Dutch Bottoms by land & Ten Is. by motorized canoe. Douglas Lake continues to fall, even as we were there. (Some areas that we motored through going up lake were a bit too shallow as we came back down, but we're only talking 6 inches or so.) Shorebird numbers were down, but should be variable at this season. Killdeer - ca. 150 Semipalmated Plover - 2 Spotted Sandpiper - 7 Lesser Yellowlegs - 5 Least Sandpiper - 45+ Pectoral Sandpiper - 18 Short-billed Dowitcher - 2 Ring-billed Gull - 1 Caspian Tern - 1 Great Egret - ca. 70 (did not watch going to roost, so probably more) Black-cr. Night-Heron - 10+ Osprey - 7 Rick Knight Johnson City, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________