[TN-Bird] Knox County birding May 26

Yesterday morning, May 26,  I did a little birding in west Knox County.  At the 
Cove in Concord Park I was surprised to find a Pied-Billed Grebe.  It seemed a 
bit late for a grebe.  I was also treated to a close look at two Baltimore 
Orioles together in a low shrub as well as a singing Orchard Oriole and 
Brown-Headed Nuthatch high in the trees.  

 

From there I took a short walk on the paved trail at the Turkey Creek Wetland.  
It was a  bit shorter than I meant it to be because the gravel road leading 
from the greenway trail out to Parkside Drive (the short-cut people take to 
walk to Wal-Mart) was completely blocked off by a construction crew with 
bulldozers.  I did manage to hear two warblers (Common Yellowthroat and Yellow 
Warbler) and a Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher above the noise of the heavy equipment and 
the truck traffic on I-40.  Mark Campen and the Isaac Walton League are doing 
good work at Turkey Creek but they can't stop "progress" and what with all the 
construction going on both at Baptist and now just off the wetland trail, it's 
been kind of depressing going there lately.

 

Carole Gobert, Knoxville, Knox County, TN

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