With the TWRA bird refresher course, we birded Cheatham WMA in Cheatham County on Wednesday, May 6th. Considering it was supposed to pour down buckets of rain all day, we had no rain after 830am and the birding was excellent, incl 4 Ceulean Warblers, probably nesting individuals. Scott Somershoe Location: Cheatham WMA, Dunn Hollow Rd Observation date: 5/6/09 Number of species: 57 Wild Turkey 4 Great Blue Heron 1 Turkey Vulture 1 Broad-winged Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 6 Chimney Swift 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 3 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 2 White-eyed Vireo 5 Yellow-throated Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 14 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 1 Purple Martin 1 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 2 Carolina Wren 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 12 Eastern Bluebird 6 Veery 1 Swainson's Thrush 2 Brown Thrasher 2 Cedar Waxwing 16 Tennessee Warbler 17 Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Parula 1 Chestnut-sided Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Yellow-throated Warbler 5 Prairie Warbler 4 Bay-breasted Warbler 2 Blackpoll Warbler 5 Cerulean Warbler 4 Black-and-white Warbler 3 American Redstart 2 Worm-eating Warbler 7 Ovenbird 1 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded Warbler 7 Yellow-breasted Chat 3 Summer Tanager 8 Scarlet Tanager 9 Eastern Towhee 4 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 4 White-throated Sparrow 2 Northern Cardinal 22 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 Blue Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 39 Red-winged Blackbird 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 14 American Goldfinch 2 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) State Ornithologist Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency P.O. Box 40747 Nashville, TN 37204 615-781-6653 (o) 601-868-0101 (cell) 615-781-6654 (fax) "Keeping the rubber side down." -SGS =================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/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________