[TN-Bird] Beaman Park Nashville sightings

Beaman Park
Nashville-Davidson Co., TN
27 April 2007
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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









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