[TN-Bird] NTOS field trip results - Yellow-throated Warbler, Orange-crowned, Gnatcatcher

3-29-09    
Stones River Greenway
Percy Priest Lake
Davidson Co.
 
NTOS members braved a cold, raw morning and were rewarded with some early  
spring migrants and an awesome show of gorgeous Common Loons.  Along  the 
beautiful Stones River Greenway we enjoyed our first of season  Yellow-throated 
Warbler which was singing just a bit, and a silent  Orange-crowned Warbler.  
There 
were also many  Yellow-rumps making it a 3-warbler morning.  Other  
highlights there included a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, a singing Brown Thrasher, an 
 Osprey 
bringing in nesting material to a cell tower, and a large flock of Wild  
Turkeys with the Toms strutting their stuff.  
 
Just above the dam at Percy Priest Lake there was one Horned Grebe in  pretty 
good breeding plumage, Northern Shovelers, Lesser Scaup, a raft of  about 20 
Red-breasted Mergansers, and a few Barn Swallows, but the Common Loons  stole 
the show.  There were about 60, with most of them in exquisite  breeding 
plumage, and 40 of those in a pretty tight pod that came very  close to the 
shoreline where we were standing.  It was a real treat to see  them so close 
and in 
calm waters.  
 
Canada goose 
blue-winged teal
northern shoveler
mallard
lesser scaup
red-breasted merganser
wild turkey
common loon
pied-billed grebe
horned grebe
great blue heron
black vulture
turkey vulture
osprey
red-tailed hawk
killdeer
ring-billed gull
rock pigeon
belted kingfisher
red-bellied woodpecker
downy
northern flicker
phoebe
blue jay
crow
barn swallow
chickadee
titmouse
brown creeper
Carolina wren
golden-crowned kinglet
ruby-crowned kinglet
blue-gray gnatcatcher
bluebird
robin
mockingbird
brown thrasher
starling
cedar waxwing
orange-crowned warbler
yellow-rumped warbler
yellow-throated warbler
towhee
field sparrow
song sparrow
swamp sparrow
white-throated sparrow
cardinal
red-winged blackbird
meadowlark
cowbird
goldfinch
 
Jan Shaw
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