[TN-Bird] Ivory-billed kin at Radnor Swamp, Nashville

4-28-05
Radnor Lake
Davidson Co.
With all this talk about the Ivory-billed, I was itching to get out to Radnor 
Lake to at least see its closest kin, the Pileated.  After the rain finally 
stopped at 3:00, I zipped on over to the west parking lot.  Walking up the road 
I was immediately joined by the original swamp bird, the Prothonotary 
Warbler.  As I stood above the creek, a Pileated called from behind me and then 
flew 
by me and landed in a huge tree, hitching its way up.  As it flew off I could 
see all the white in its underwings, and it was easy to imagine it being on 
the trailing edges instead of the leading.  Maybe someday.  After that magical 
moment, a female Scarlet Tanager with nesting material flew into the tree right 
above me and started working on her nest.  This is on a low hanging branch 
right over the right side of the road just past the guard rail by the creek 
that 
runs under the road.

Jan Shaw
Nashville, TN


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