FreeLists / tn-bird / [TN-Bird] Murfreesboro birding site - Children's Discovery House Museum

[BEAMERWITT@xxxxxxx]

An excellent wetland birding site has opened this year virtually in downtown 
Murfreesboro!  In 1986, Billie Little with the help of her husband Joe, a 
local pediatrician, managed to open The Children's Discovery House, a hands on 
museum, in a old house, one block off the town square.  Several years ago, they 
started expansion into a new site on SE Broad St that was occupied by the old 
Coca Cola bottling plant.  Behind the plant was an extensive wetland that 
originated with the water flowing out of Murfree Spring. The museum is now open 
in 
a beautiful new building, and a nature area in the back includes a wonderful 
boardwalk and paved trail complex that was dedicated this May.   The area 
encompasses 20 acres, and will undoubtedly attract a large variety of migrant 
and 
breeding birds as well.  In the center of the marsh, the WGNS radio station 
antenna soars several hundred feet into the air.  Seen this morning were a 
Marsh 
Wren and a Lincoln's Sparrow, both uncommon in this area. Access is limited to 
daylight hours only, any donations to the museum would be welcome!  The area 
is a few blocks past the junction of US 231 (Church St) and US41 (SE Broad) 
heading SE toward Manchester.


Terry Witt
Murfreesboro Tn 37130


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