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Radnor Lake State Natural Area
Davidson Co.
Nashville, TN
6 Sep. 2006
7:15-9:15 am

Having just returned this past weekend from a 3 week trip to 
Europe that included my astronomy meeting in the Czech Republic 
and a stopover in England, I was eager to see what fall 
migration in Tennessee would provide.

Too bad the NTOS Wednesday walks at Radnor Lake did not start 
this morning.  I met Jan Shaw at the West Parking lot, and we 
slowly made our way up to the dam, where birding was so good 
that we could not tear ourselves away for about an hour.  It 
was great to look DOWN from the dam bridge onto a large mixed 
flock of warblers and other birds feeding in the trees and 
bushes below the dam.  We had a flyover COMMON NIGHTHAWK.  A 
flock of 3-4 BALTIMORE ORIOLES included an adult male wandered
in and out of view, always a wonderful treat. We added 
YELLOW-BILLED CUCKOO and both SUMMER and SCARLET TANAGERs, 
RED and WHITE-EYED VIREOs and a probable SWAINSON'S THRUSH. 
Between us we had 10 species of warblers, including BAY-BREASTED 
and BLACKBURNIAN, but the "piece de resistance" was our last 
bird.  Jan found a male MOURNING WARBLER skulking along the 
spillway bank nextto the Ranger's house and we got killer 
looks at it for perhaps 8-10 minutes as it moved in and out 
of the bushes and vines.

Eventually Jan and I went our separate ways.  I had to put in
some time at work, and Jan continued birding along the lake
trail.  

Birds of interest included:
Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1
Common Nighthawk 1
Eastern Wood-Pewee 4+
Great Crested Flycatcher 2
White-eyed Vireo 1
Red-eyed Vireo 2
Blue-winged Warbler 1
Tennessee Warbler 8+
Nashville Warbler 1
Chestnut-sided Warbler 2
Magnolia Warbler 5+
Blackburnian Warbler 1
Bay-breasted Warbler 1
Black-and-white Warbler 2
American Redstart 4
Mourning Warbler 1 male
Summer Tanager 2
Scarlet Tanager 1
Baltimore Oriole 4

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Frank Fekel
Tennessee State University
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Box 9501
Nashville, TN 37209 USA

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