[TN-Bird] Re: [Bulk] Knoxville waterfowl
- From: "tom howe" <blountbirder@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>, "'Tennessee Bird List'" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2013 21:58:53 -0500
Good find, Carol. I remember this used to be The Hungry Fisherman
restaurant.
Tom
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From: tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:tn-bird-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Carole Gobert
Sent: Sunday, January 27, 2013 6:48 PM
To: Tennessee Bird List
Subject: [Bulk] [TN-Bird] Knoxville waterfowl
After the KTOS planning meeting in Knoxville this afternoon, because it was
so close I stopped by a pond that I used to check regularly when I worked at
the adjoining office plaza. The pond is off Baum Drive a short distance
from Deane Hill Drive in Knoxville (Knox County). It is between the office
plaza and what used to be (maybe still is) Peninsula outpatient treatment
facility. Anyway, there used to be a Lighthouse Restaurant on the site and
the lighthouse is still there, so I call it Lighthouse Pond though others
call it Baum Lake. After our office moved in mid 2009, I checked the pond
occasionally but never found anything of interest. They had done a lot of
construction at the railroad tracks and torn out all the vegetation
alongside the pond. So I wasn't expecting to see anything when I drove by a
little before 5 pm today.
Far from finding nothing of interest, I found the pond inhabited by a small
flock of Redheads (1 male and 6 females) and 13 Gadwalls. There was not a
sign of the domestic ducks and Canada Geese that used to hang out there.
Someone has put out a bird feeder near the parking lot so there was some
activity from small birds in that vicinity also. There are no trespassing
signs posted all around the pond but it can easily be viewed from the
parking lots, so there is no need to trespass to see the ducks.
Carole Gobert
Knoxville, TN
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