Flycatcher at Spring City Park

He just looks so pensive.

This photo was taken October 2 at Spring City Park in Spring City, Tennessee.

Since we ended out buying a house in Rockwood instead of Spring City I am not sure how often I will actually visit the parks in Spring City. Spring City is 10 miles in the wrong direction for me. I was going while we were staying in the motel in Spring City. What else to do while Jimmy was at work? The backyard in Rockwood appears to be so packed with birds I think it will keep my camera busy for a while. Later I might venture back there on occasion.

I am beginning to get my husband hooked on the photography too. Along the highway between Spring City and Rockwood on occassion there are Red Tailed Hawks on the phone lines. I have yet to capture one with the camera. Jimmy has my point and shoot with him this week to use at work. He was headed home yesterday afternoon and there was one of the hawks. He stopped and started to get out of the car and the Hawk flew to the other side of the road. Jimmy went down the road and turned around and stopped again, once again he started to get out of the car and the Hawk flew again. I asked him if he tried to get the shot without getting out of the car. He had not. If he sees it again this afternoon I bet he will be trying without opening the door. Hopefully he will get it. If he does I will post it.

I also have him filling my bird feeders at the Rockwood house because I want to keep the birds there so I can photograph them. Friday before he came home for the weekend he filled them to the top. Monday the feeders were empty. The same amount had been lasting 2 weeks, not just 3 days. He told me he could not afford to give them that much, which the 2 feeders do hold quite a bit. He said he would fill tomorrow. I gave him enough to fill twice this week, but they will never last for the 3 weeks we will be gone on vacation. I have to keep reminding myself these birds were there long before I started feeding them a month ago. I am going to have to stop trying to feed the whole county. But it is so much fun to see them all in the yard.

American Robin at Spring City Park

This American Robin blends in so well with the rocks he thinks he is hidden from me.

These were all taken several months ago at the

Spring City Park in Spring City, Tennessee.

Falls Colors at Spring City Park - Sky Watch

Well, I am back in Spring City for a couple of days. Got up yesterday morning and decided to go up on the plateau to see the colors there. It appears they are a day or two beyond peak. Did get some good photos around the water, I will be posting those later.

When I got back to the valley (I guess Spring City is considered in the valley, either way it is not on the plateau) I went by the Spring City Park and took all of these photographs in the park.

We probably still have a few more days of peak before the leaves start dropping fast. Did you notice I said we? How quick I am adjusting to being here.

Common Buckeye

I was really surprised to see the butterfly in the park. We were told the Monday morning we were gone (vacation) it was 31 degrees. This past Monday morning is was 41. So you would think the days of photographing butterflies would be over until next year. I got excited when I saw the Buckeye, doesn't take much to excite me sometimes.

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Downy Woodpecker

First he showed me the back of his head. Little did he know, I was glad to see that red spot.

Then he flitted one way, and then the other. These were taken at the Spring City Park.

What a difference 2 weeks can make

The top photograph was taken October 15, the 2nd was taken November 2. Both looking in the same direction at the Spring City Park in Spring City, Tennessee.

The last 2 were taken October 15.

Yellow Flowers at Spring City Park

I took this photographs Thursday morning, after it had rained all day on Wednesday. The sun had not really come out at the time I took these, so the water was still all over the blooms. I probably would not have posted them so quickly but they looked so similiar to Darla's post on Thursday.

These were taken at the Spring City Nature Park, not to be confused with the Veterans Park in Spring City where I keep getting the Heron photographs. Veterans Park is on one side of the railroad tracks and is right at the edge of Watts Bar Lake. The Spring City Nature Park is on the other side of the railroad tracks, and is located in the one caution light 'city'. Both parks have very nice walking tracks. Can you tell this little town is beginning to grow on me? God at work.