Spring is coming despite to cold, raw weather today in Cades Cove. I had 38 species of birds including 7 species of ducks on the sewage ponds. I believe this is the largest variety I've seen in one day there. Warren Bielenberg Maryville Wood Duck 26 - 22 flew over Sparks Lane and landed in beaver pond along Abrams Creek, 4 on sewage pond Gadwall 2 Mallard 2 Redhead 6 Ring-necked Duck 4 Bufflehead 24 Ruddy Duck 3 Great Blue Heron 1 Wild Turkey 13 Red-shouldered hawk 2 Northern Harrier 2 hunting fields along Hyatt Lane on both sides of bridge Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer 3 Wilson's Snipe 2 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 American Kestrel 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 14 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 4 Winter wren 1 Carolina Wren 1 Eastern Bluebird 16 American Robin 500 3 flocks exceeding 120 in fields by stables, donation box, Martha's Branch and Sparks Lane, 100 in bunred area by Tater Branch and 60 in Cable Mill area American Pipit 1 Pine Warbler 3 in Tater Branch burn Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Fox Sparrow 9 on ground by corn crib behind Becky Cable house - most I've seen at one time in the Cove Song Sparrow 14 Swamp Sparrow 2 Dark-eyed Junco 4 Northern Cardinal 3 Red-winged Blackbird 5 Eastern Meadowlark 7