[TN-Bird] Turkey Creek Wetland, Common Snipe, GBBC

Upon checking the GBBC lists Monday afternoon it appeared to me that 
Knoxville's list of species was severely lacking in waterfowl.  I decided to 
try to help out in that category by leaving work a bit early and going to 
the Turkey Creek wetland in west Knox County, Tennessee.  Surely I could at 
least add a wood duck or gadwall to the list.  I first went to the parking 
lot at Baptist Hospital and found 4 or 5 wood ducks.  No sign of the pied 
billed grebe that was there a few weeks ago.  Didn't stay long but drove to 
Earthfare, parked and at approx. 5:30 p.m.started walking along the paved 
walk toward Lovell Road (eastbound).

I hadn't gone far when a bird flushed to my left, scurrying into the 
vegetation and out of sight.  Its companion, however, froze.  A Common 
Snipe.  I think the one that fled was also probably a snipe but I'll never 
know.  The one that stayed just stood there, up to its belly in water, not 
moving.  It was maybe 12 feet from me.  It didn't move while I dug out my 
field guide (thankfully I found one in the car for this unplanned excursion) 
and compared field marks.  A perfect match.  It stood there for at least 5 
minutes before walking into the same vegetation the frirst one had.

It was getting dark so there were birds I couldn't ID (good excuse)  but 
here's my list for the slightly less than an hour I spent there:

                Wood Duck - 4  (all at Baptist)
        Gadwall - 8
        Mallard - about 50  (28 at Baptist)
        Northern Shoveler - 2
        American Coot - 2
        Wilson's Snipe - 1
        Belted Kingfisher - 1
        Northern Flicker - 1
        Carolina Chickadee - 4
        Carolina Wren - 1
        Golden-crowned Kinglet - 1
        American Robin - 2
        Northern Mockingbird - 1
        Eastern Towhee - 1
        Red-winged Blackbird - 30+

Carole Gobert
Knox County, Tennessee


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