5-1-07 Radnor Lake Davidson Co. Kevin Bowden and I shared the most wonderfully birdy morning we can remember at Radnor Lake as we walked a little past Long Bridge and back. It started with Ranger Brian Becker spotting 8 American Avocets flying over the lake. As of 12:00, they were still there, on the water in the middle of the lake. But for over 3 1/2 hours they just flew in circles without landing, sometimes right over the water, and other times up at tree level. I have never seen them at Radnor before. But warblers and vireos were everywhere, with prolonged looks at eye level in the sparsely leafed trees. And a flock would stay in one area for a long time, so we were getting multiple stunning looks at each species. It was just like a fallout, but without the bad weather. We wished more birders had been there to share in our amazement, especially when we had two male Blackburnians in our bins at once just 15 feet away. And the bird song was still going strong until about 10:30. American avocet 8 barred owl 2 swift ruby-throated hummingbird 1 female FOS eastern wood-pewee 1 great crested flycatcher 2 white-eyed vireo 6 blue-headed vireo 2 warbling vireo 1 doing a whisper song Philadelphia vireo 4 red-eyed vireo 5 purple martin n. rough-winged swallow barn swallow ruby-crowned kinglet several blue-gray gnatcatcher several veery 5 Swainson's thrush 20+ gray-cheeked thrush 2 cedar waxwing Tn warbler 1 Nashville 4 n. parula 1 yellow warbler 3 chestnut-sided 7 magnolia 4 Cape May 2 yellow-rumped 20+ black-throated green 6 blackburnian 2 palm 4 bay-breasted 3 blackpoll 5 black-and-white 3 Am. redstart 1 prothonotary 3 ovenbird 1 L. waterthrush 1 Wilson's 1 FOS summer tanager 1 scarlet tanager 1 rose-breasted grosbeak 2 indigo bunting 2 Baltimore oriole 1 Jan Shaw Nashville, TN ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. =================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 _____________________________________________________________