FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Concord Park horned grebe, osprey, chipping sparrow

["Carole Gobert" <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you'd like a good look at a breeding plumaged HORNED GREBE, you should 
check out the Cove at Concord Park in west Knox County.  I was there this 
morning just before 7 a.m. and found one easily viewable sometimes as close 
as 30-40 feet from shore.  If you walk straight to the water from the 
parking lot and go to the right along the shore, that's where it was.  I've 
seen it in that cove before but  in eclipse plumage.  I must have watched it 
(and a PIED BILLED GREBE) for half an hour before going to the car for my 
scope.  Of course, by the time I returned it was nowhere in sight.  I walked 
around the park and eventually the HORNED GREBE returned.  It was not as 
close as before but it had an interesting companion - a REDHEAD hen.  When I 
left the park nearly 3 hours later, the HORNED GREBE and the REDHEAD were 
still in that cove though near the far shore--still easily viewable through 
a scope.

Other highlights were a  CHIPPING SPARROW singng from the top of a small 
tree, a BROWN THRASHER singing from the top of a tall tree, and an OSPREY 
that I watched land in a field and take off with a clump of grasses; it flew 
to the east with its nesting material.  also a singing INDIGO BUNTING that I 
never could find.

In all, I had 33 species.

Carole Gobert, Knox County, Tennessee


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