FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Blount County finsh spot comes through again

[Charlie <cmmbirds@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi folks,

In Blount County, just down Flats Road from the Foothills Parkway, is
a place Tracey and I call the "finch spot."  For 3 Christmas Bird
Counts in a row, I/we have had Pine Siskins and/or Red Crossbills
there.  I believe it was 2 years ago we had about 120+ Red
Crossbills!  The birds tend to stick around a very small area,
virtually on the road.  We park our car and just look at them from 15
feet away.

I went by about 2:45 pm today, 11/4.  There were about 35 Pine
Siskins there.  There was also a flock of about 20 Cedar Waxwings in
the pines down the road.

To get there:  Follow the Foothills Parkway south from US 321.  Take
a left turn about 9(?) miles up.  The turn is marked Flats Road and
Look Roack Campground. Before the campground, take a right, then at
the t take another right onto road (it really looks like a
driveway)on the left  About 2 houses past here, park in the driveway
of the house/trailer that is under construction, and look around.  If
you get to Eagle Rock (a religious camp, I think) you've gone too
far.

Or, you can just take Montvale Road from the center of town.   Drive
all the way south past camp Montvale, and take a left on Flats Road. 
Go about a mile.

Charlie

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Charlie Muise, Naturalist near
Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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