After driving to the end of Craig Cove Road in Knoxville yesterday morning to look for the white pelican reported making appearances there and finding only a great blue heron and some mallards in the Cove (only part of which is visible from the road), I widened my search by driving to the nearby Lakeshore greenway and searching the water viewable from there. I saw two American wood ducks and 6 bufflehead but no pelican. After walking for a while, I climbed the hill on my way back to the parking lot and sat on a bench at the top under a tree for about half an hour and practiced my sparrow skills (which need a lot of work) by watching the many, many sparrows flitting around in the tree and surrounding brush and grass and on the paved path. I found 5 species of sparrows. Most numerous were field sparrows and song sparrows. One of the field sparrows even landed at my feet and sat there for a few seconds. Also seen were a couple white throated sparrows and a chipping sparrow. And I heard the song of a savannah sparrow (which I immediately listened to on my Peterson CD upon returning to my car to verify what it was). Carole Gobert Knox County, Tennessee =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. ----------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx ----------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ========================================================