FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Clark Center Park, Anderson County, Sunday, Feb. 4

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Walked around Clark Center Park in Oak Ridge (Anderson County) from 2 to 
3:40 p.m. yesterday afternoon. A little cold but a beautiful day.  
Highlights were 4 Hermit Thrushes and 3 Brown Creepers (2 on the same tree).

All the Hermit Thrushes I'd previously seen had either been skulking in the 
underbrush or calling from high in a tree.  Yesterday was the first I'd seen 
them hopping around on the ground like sparrows--all except the first 
(skulking).  Two were foraging on the ground in the area between the water 
and the volleyball court (along with multitudes of juncoes) and the last 
dropped down from the roof of the maintenance building next to the parking 
lot as I was returning to my car.

The birds were being pretty quiet but I've noticed that they will be quiet 
in cold weather.

Here's my count:

Canada Goose     2
Pied-billed Grebe     2   (in the water at the entrance just off Pumphouse 
Road)
Great Blue Heron     2
Black Vulture     3
Red-tailed Hawk     1
Ring-billed Gull     25
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker     1
Northern Flicker     3
American Crow     1
Tufted Titmouse     3
Brown Creeper     3
Eastern Bluebird     15+
Hermit Thrush     4
Northern Mockingbird     1
Field Sparrow     1
Song Sparrow     3
White-throated Sparrow     5
Dark-eyed Junco     70+
Northern Cardinal     3

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN

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