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

[John Devereux Joslin <jdjoslin@xxxxxxxxx>]

Terry,
    Is this the area where you have reported Yellow-crowned Night-herons 
breeding?
--Dev Joslin
Oak Ridge, TN

BEAMERWITT@xxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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