FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Concord Park Cove Sunday

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Birded the Cove at Concord Park, West Knox County, Sunday March 4,  late 
morning 11:05 - 12:20.  It was cold and the park was almost deserted when I 
arrived.  There were 3 Horned Grebes in the cove to the east of the parking 
lot (between the park and the yacht club).  One was in winter plumage but 
the other two were starting to take on their breeding plumage.  The most 
advanced had a beautiful reddish yellow eye line and its horns were standing 
up.  In all I found 6 Horned Grebes, not counting the 4 that I saw from the 
boat ramp 2 miles east of the Cove on my way there.

The best place to see sparrows is toward the back of the mud flat adjacent 
to the west pond.  I counted 29 White-Throated and 13 Juncoes in a mixed 
flock feeding out in the open next to the shrubbery on the far side.  
Strangely, only one Song Sparrow, off by itself on another part of the mud 
flat.  Just a few Mallards on the pond itself which is about 1/3 its 
original size last fall.

Not many birds singing but one or two Pine Warblers and a Brown Headed 
Nuthatch announced their presence vocally.  Tree Swallows were out in force.

My count:

Mallard     13
Horned Grebe     6
Great Blue Heron     2
Killdeer     1
Ring-billed Gull     25
Mourning Dove     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     1
Northern Flicker     1
Blue Jay     1
Tree Swallow     18
Carolina Chickadee     2
Brown-headed Nuthatch     1
American Robin     2
Pine Warbler     1
Eastern Towhee     1
Song Sparrow     1
White-throated Sparrow     29
Dark-eyed Junco     13


Carole Gobert, Knoxville, TN

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