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Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Davidson Co.
Nashville, TN
7-9 am
mostly cloudy

Snuck out to Radnor Lake this morning to beat the less than ideal 
weather predicted for the rest of the week.  I walked the lake 
trail from the west parking lot and hit the east parking lot before 
returning by Otter Creek Road.  As expected their was a mixture 
of birds.  Perhaps my best bird of the morning ws my first GREEN 
HERON of the year.  Water birds included a large good sized raft of 
AMERICAN COOTs hanging together in formation.  Others included a 
pair of BLUE-WINGED TEAL and a pair of GADWALL plus 4 PIED-BILLED
GREBEs.  Land birds associated with winter included two calling 
YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERs and a BROWN CREEPER.  Last Tuesday at 
Radnor I heard no BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHERs, but they are now back 
in major numbers.  So are the BROWN COWBIRDS.  I found only 3 warbler 
species.

Birds of note included

Pied-billed Grebe 4
Wood Duck 3
Blue-winged Teal 2
Gadwall 2
Bufflehead 1
American Coot 50+
Chimney Swift 5
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Eastern Phoebe 1
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7+
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 10+
Yellow-rumped Warbler 15+
Black-throated Green Warbler 1
Louisiana Waterthrush 3

-- 
Frank Fekel
Tennessee State University
Center of Excellence in Information Systems
330 10th Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37203 USA

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