It was a gorgeous day in Cades Cove with plenty of bird activity. I spent about an 90 minutes birding on Sparks Lane and at the sewage ponds and had the following birds: Wood Duck - 13 Wild Turkey - 15 Great Blue Heron - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 2 Mourning Dove - 2 Chimney Swift - 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Northern Flicker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 5 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 1 Least Flycatcher - 1 Empidonax sp. - 3 Eastern Phoebe - 6 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Red-eyed Vireo - 5 Blue Jay - 5 American Crow - 16 Tufted Titmouse - 6 White-breasted Nuthatch - 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 9 American Robin - 23 Gray Catbird - 13 Cedar Waxwing - 9 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Northern Parula - 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 5 Magnolia Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 6 Yellow-throated Warbler - 3 Palm Warbler - 9 Black-and-white Warbler - 1 American Redstart - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 2 Hooded Warbler - 1 Scarlet Tanager - 3 Chipping Sparrow - 14 Swamp Sparrow - 1 Northern Cardinal - 1 Indigo Bunting - 3 Eastern Meadowlark - 2 American Goldfinch-11 45 species, 11 warblers Warren Bielenberg Maryville