[TN-Bird] Walker Springs Park warblers & woodpeckers, hawks & owls

From: Carole Gobert <cpgobert@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Tennessee Bird List <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2011 18:13:26 -0400

Walker Springs Park/Ten Mile Creek Greenway, Knox County, TN.  At 10:50 this 
morning I opened the door to my car in the parking lot at Walker Springs Park 
and there in a small tree maybe 6 feet away were a male American Redstart and a 
female Chestnut-sided Warbler.  It's pretty nice when you don't even have to 
get out of your car to see warblers.  I sat there and watched them work that 
tree for 5-10 minutes.  A pick-up truck pulled in and parked under the tree but 
that didn't disturb them.  When they finally moved on I got out of the car and 
was approached by the driver of the pick-up.  He wanted to show me an album 
with photographs of two Barred Owls he's been seeing in the trees on the other 
side of the creek along the walk out to Bridgewater Road.  He says he sees them 
about twice a week and has named them Oliver and Olivia.  They were really good 
photos.  
I walked around the park and on the Ten Mile Creek Greenway past Wal-Mart to 
the place that overlooks Gallaher View Road and then back and out to 
Bridgewater Road and approx. .3 mile on the other side of Bridgewater.  Coming 
back, I was looking at a Hairy Woodpecker when a small boy there with his 
family walked up to me and told me about the two owls in the same area where 
the photographer had indicated.  I asked him to let me know if he saw them 
today because I hadn't seen them on the way out.  He said, "You don't  always 
see them", perhaps trying to make me feel better.  Poor birder that I am, all I 
managed to see in those trees were Redstarts, Chestnut-sided Warblers, Magnolia 
Warblers and an assortment of woodpeckers.  So I didn't see any owls but I have 
on good authority that they're there.
29 speciesBlack Vulture 1

Turkey Vulture 2

Red-shouldered Hawk 2

Rock Pigeon 1   on a distant roof near Gallaher View Road

Chimney Swift 2

Belted Kingfisher 1

Red-bellied Woodpecker 3

Downy Woodpecker 3

Hairy Woodpecker 1      either 2 or same one twice, not far apart

Northern Flicker 2

Eastern Wood-Pewee 1

Eastern Phoebe 1

White-eyed Vireo 2

Blue Jay 12

American Crow 7

Carolina Chickadee 6

Tufted Titmouse 3

Carolina Wren 7

Swainson's Thrush 1

American Robin 7

Northern Mockingbird 2

Brown Thrasher 3

Hooded Warbler 1

American Redstart 6

Magnolia Warbler 4

Chestnut-sided Warbler 4

Palm Warbler 1

Eastern Towhee 10

Northern Cardinal 6


This report was generated automatically by eBird v2 (http://ebird.org)Carole 
Gobert, Knoxville

[TN-Bird] Walker Springs Park warblers & woodpeckers, hawks & owls

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