[TN-Bird] Turkey Creek sparrows

From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:56:41 -0500
Took an afternoon walk on the Turkey Creek Wetland greenway in west Knox County 
this afternoon beginning at 3 p.m.  I expected the place to be rather dead at 
that hour but it was literally hopping with activity of the sparrow variety.  I 
guess the White-Crowned Sparrows have set up camp here this winter as I refound 
several in the same general area that I found them on the Knoxville CBC January 
2--along the paved path just east of the fitness station.  They were in the 
company of dozens of other sparrows, mostly Song Sparrows but also several 
Swamp Sparrows and a couple of White-throated.  Two nearby Hermit Thrushes were 
also a nice find.  Then as I was standing on the pavement, looking down the 
chip trail that runs north just east of the creek, checking out a towhee and a 
swamp sparrow on the chip trail, an adult Cooper's Hawk made an unexpected 
landing on the ground near them.  It stayed for maybe a minute but when I tried 
to move a bit to get an unobstructed look, the hawk flew into the trees and 
vanished.
 
Carolel Gobert, Knoxville                                         
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