[TN-Bird] swallows?

Sunday afternoon around 5 p.m. there were several little black birds darting 
here and there in an open field at the very end of Gleason Road in 
Knoxville.  I'm relatively new at trying to ID birds but I got a pretty good 
look at one of them when it stopped for a brief rest in a small tree and it 
looked to me like either a purple martin or tree swallow though it could 
have been something completely different.  They are black on top, white 
underneath, have short bills and short tails, approximately cardinal-sized.

There were also lots of starlings just down the road from the field near the 
shopping center.

If you're interested in taking  a look, from Morrell Road southbound (going 
away from Kingston Pike), turn left at the traffic light on Gleason (away 
from West Town) and take it till it dead ends.  The field is behing an 
assisted living facility on the left.  There was a porta potty and bulldozer 
parked there, so you might want to wait till after the workmen leave; they 
weren't there Sunday.

Carole Gobert
West Knox County, Tenn.



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