Radnor Lake State Natural Area Davidson Co. Nashville, TN 2007 October 2 07:00-09:30am mostly cloudy, cool Returning from Arizona on Sunday, having seen their second state record RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD, a nice adult male, I missed the excellent birding at Radnor Lake on Friday. Thus, I headed out to Radnor this morning. As usual, I birded from the West Parking lot to Long Bridge and back. Almost immediately, I spotted an adult BALD EAGLE, my first of the species at Radnor, eating breakfast on the limb of the huge dead tree at Grassy Point. It eventually flew across the lake and landed in some trees above Otter Creek Road. I enjoyed seeing several ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAKs and SCARLET TANAGERs plus a YELLOW-BELLIED FLYCATCHER at Long Bridge. There were plenty of PHILADELPHIA VIREOs along with a lone WARBLING VIREO. I encountered 10 species of warblers, dominated by MAGNOLIAs. YELLOW RUMPED's were around but not yet in ascendancy. Two male WILSON's and an adult male AM. REDSTART were other highlights. At one point two fussing wrens brought in a half dozen species of warblers for support, but I never identified the problem that they were complaining about. I saw or heard 6 species of woodpeckers, including my first YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKERs of the season, missing only RED-HEADED, which is relatively rare at Radnor. Birds of interest included: Bald Eagle 1 adult Chimney Swift 50+ Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Yellow-bellied Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Warbling Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 7 House Wren 1 Swainson's Thrush 3 Gray Catbird 4 Scarlet Tanager 3 Summer Tanager 1 Rose breasted Grosbeak 3 Warblers: Tennessee 1 N. Parula 1 Chestnut-sided 2 Magnolia 24+ Black-throated Green 3 Black and White 5 Am. Redstart 4 (1 adult male) Ovenbird 1 Common Yellowthroat 1 Wilson's 2 males -- Frank Fekel Tennessee State University Center of Excellence in Information Systems 3500 John A. Merritt Boulevard Box 9501 Nashville, TN 37209 USA =================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 _____________________________________________________________