[TN-Bird] Results--Beaman Park Nashville Bird Walk

From: "Candice & Kevin" <ethden@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 15:18:51 -0500
Beaman Park
Nashville-Davidson Co. TN

22 May 2010

 

Five birders joined a walk sponsored by Beaman Park Nature Center this
morning. We began at the Nature Center on Old Hickory Blvd and walked down
the Sedge Hill Trail to Henry Hollow Creek, then took the Henry Hollow Trail
up to Ridgetop Trail, back down along the road to the lower parking lot
following the Henry Hollow Creek to rejoin the Sedge Hill Trail, finally
returning to the Nature Center.

 

Tanagers were in large numbers; we saw SUMMER TANAGERS and SCARLET TANAGERS
of both sexes, often in pairs. We also heard four WOOD THRUSH loud and
clear. This species has been a bit illusive for many of us this spring---not
the case this morning. We not only heard, but also saw a good number of
RED-EYED VIREOS. YELLOW-THROATED VIREOS remained unseen but certainly heard.


 

At one point along the Henry Hollow Creek, we spied a fledgling on the
forest floor. It looked thrush-like, but because it remained motionless in
the obscurity, it was  hard to identify. Was it a Wood Thrush? Was it a
Louisiana Waterthrush? Suddenly an adult OVENBIRD walked out toward the
young one. But we did not see it feed or in any way attend to the fledgling.
So while we might like to think this was an adult with its young, we remain
unsure.

 

On the walk we got a pretty good lesson in the difference between the songs
of the OVENBIRD and that of the KENTUCKY WARBLER, although we heard only one
example of the latter.

 

While we did not get a high species count, we felt we got pretty good looks
and sounds of the birds we did observe.

 

Number of species:     33
 
Mourning Dove     1
Yellow-billed Cuckoo     1
Chimney Swift     6
Red-bellied Woodpecker     5
Downy Woodpecker     2
Pileated Woodpecker     4
Eastern Wood-Pewee     8
Acadian Flycatcher     6
Eastern Phoebe     2
Great Crested Flycatcher     2
Yellow-throated Vireo     5
Red-eyed Vireo     12
Blue Jay     3
Carolina Chickadee     4
Tufted Titmouse     8
White-breasted Nuthatch     4
Carolina Wren     4
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher     9
Swainson's Thrush     1
Wood Thrush     4
Northern Parula     1
Black-and-white Warbler     1
Worm-eating Warbler     4
Ovenbird     4
Louisiana Waterthrush     5
Kentucky Warbler     1
Summer Tanager     10
Scarlet Tanager     4
Eastern Towhee     1
Chipping Sparrow     2
Northern Cardinal     3
Brown-headed Cowbird     4
American Goldfinch     4

 

Kevin Bowden

Nashville, TN
 

 

 

 



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