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[Chris Sloan <chris.sloan@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

My wife and I spent 3 hours at Beaman Park (nw. Davidson Co.) this 
morning after the storms let up; we walked the Henry Hollow Loop and 
also checked around the upper parking area.  Activity was slow to start 
with, but picked up steadily as the morning progressed.  The highlight 
was an apparent Mourning Warbler singing just before the upper parking 
area.  I say "apparent" because I couldn't find the bird (despite 
considerable effort) and it was giving a somewhat atypical song that 
started off like a typical Mourning but then ended with a strange 
warble.  Despite not seeing it, I am fairly certain that is what it was, 
since the start of that song was spot on for Mourning (or 
MacGillivray's, but I'm going to go out on a limp and assume that's not 
what it was).  We had a total of 18 warbler species.  As usual, 
Worm-eating Warblers, Scarlet Tanagers, and Red-eyed Vireos were 
abundant and easily seen with no special effort.

Other noteworthy sightings:
2 Eastern Wood-Pewee
5 Acadian Flycatchers (my FOS; none were detected here last weekend)
2 Great-crested Flycatchers
1 Veery
1 Gray-cheeked Thrush
5 Swainson's Thrushes
8 Wood Thrushes
18 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers
5 Yellow-throated Vireos
17 Red-eyed Vireos (mostly by voice, so I can't rule out Philadelphia; I 
haven't cracked that code yet)
18 Warblers:
9 Tennessee
5 Nashville
2 Northern Parula
4 Chestnut-sided
3 Magnolia
2 Black-throated Green
4 Yellow-throated
1 Pine
3 Palm (none seen, but presumed Western)
2 Bay-breasted
7 Blackpoll
3 Black-and-white
3 American Redstart
10 Worm-eating
3 Ovenbird
2 Louisiana Waterthrush
2 Kentucky
1 Mourning
15 Scarlet Tanager
7 Summer Tanager
19 Rose-breasted Grosbeak
13 Indigo Bunting
1 Baltimore Oriole

regards,

-- 
Chris Sloan
Nashville, TN

My photos:  http://csloan.smugmug.com

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