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Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Nashville, TN
A friend of mine who is a long time birder once told me that some of the best 
birding she has ever experienced is in parking lots just outside the trails and 
boardwalks where the birds are "supposed" to be.

With this in mind, I went to the east parking lot at Radnor early today. The 
lighting was perfect with the sun coming up. No disappointment there as all 
within minutes I had prolonged looks at a blackpoll warbler, almost at eye 
level, working his way through the foliage. Suddenly a chestnut sided warbler 
was there. It showed me a yellow crown, disappeared, then reappeared showing 
lots of black and white on wings and back. The clincher was the rufous flanks. 
A hidden Tennessee warbler who had been singing away in a red cedar finally 
came out and the sunlight really highlighted his greenish back. Next was a 
black and white warbler and then a Cape May warbler. All within five minutes or 
so.

And later, when I got home, in the hackberry in the driveway was a beautiful 
male Magnolia warbler singing and hopping about. In the future, maybe I can 
just bird from the car!

Elsewhere at Radnor along the road was a yellow warbler and on South Cove Loop 
was a Baltimore Oriole that showed up very nicely in the sunlight at tree tops.

Kevin Bowden 
Nashville, TN






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