Beaman Park Nashville-Davidson Co., TN 27 April 2007 - I've always been somewhat envious of my New England birding friends who have the luxury of having the neo-tropicals arrive before the leaves do, so to speak, making it much easier to actually see the birds. Here in Tennessee, we are often "fighting the foliage" to get a look at what we hear singing or what we've seen flitter. This morning at Beaman Park in Northwest Davidson County, I got a taste of what birders in more northerly climes experience. Beaman seems to have been particularly hard hit with the freeze a couple weeks ago. In fact, once the gray clouds moved in midmorning, it looked more like late November with all the brown and leafless trees. Thus I was able to get some excellent looks at birds that would probably have been invisible otherwise. Here's a run down on highlights. I got excellent and mostly leisurely views of: Black-throated Green Warbler 4 Kentucky Warbler (singing) 2 Worm-eating Warbler 2 Ovenbird 2 (one was singing) Bay-breasted Warbler 1 Nashville Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Summer Tanager 2 (males chasing each other back and forth) Scarlet Tanager 4 (three males and one female) Wood Thrush 1 Swainsons Thrush 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 3 (two were almost side by side) Blue-headed Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 (FOS--was also singing) Two NORTHERN PARULAS did not cooperate, despite the lack of leaves. They remain heard and not seen. Kevin Bowden Nashville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ 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. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________