FreeLists / tn-bird / [tn-bird] Radnor Lake, Nashville, TN

[Frank Fekel <fekel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Friday morning I arrived at Radnor Lake in Nashville by 6:30 am.  Since
we are still on daylight savings time and the skies were overcast, it
was yet quite dark.  Getting out of my car at the west parking lot
I heard an EASTEN SCREECH calling from the woods to the right of the 
visitors center.  Later I also got my first HERMIT THRUSH of the season.  

I reached the dam area by 7:00 am and for the next 90 minutes watched the
action around the dam spillway.  Although there was intermittant light
rain, I nevertheless once again enjoyed the early morning warbler
activities.  Total numbers and species are much reduced from last week,
but I had absolutely no warbler-neck.  It is a real pleasure to
be able to look down into the spillway and view with great clarity the
colorful striped backs of BAY-BREASTED and BLACKBURNIAN WARBLERs.  Yes,
warblers really do have backs not just underbellies! 

Besides the 5 species of warblers, there were also 2 WINTER WRENs that
at times chased each other through the vines and briers near the dam.
There were also at least 40 CHIMNEY SWIFTs fluttering about.
GOLDEN-CROWNED and RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETs rounded out the morning's
viewing.

Warblers seen:

Tennessee Warbler 2
Magnolia  2
Yellow-rumped 25
Blackburnian 2
Bay-breasted 3



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

=================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER=====================

The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with
first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation.
-----------------------------------------------------
To post to this mailing list, simply send email to:
tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
----------------------------------------------------- 
To unsubscribe, send email to:
tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 
with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field.
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
     Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society
          web site at http://www.tnbirds.org
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
    TN-Bird Net Owner: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN
        jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx      (423) 764-3958
=========================================================