Ashley,
Warner Parks is where I found my first Kentucky warbler as well :).
Regarding your sighting of Bobolink. Are you sure you didn't find red-wing
blackbirds? Bobolink's breeding range is well north of here.
Thanks,
Joshua Stevenson
Nashville
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From: Ashley Heeney
Sent: Sunday, July 5, 11:08 PM
Subject: [TN-Bird] Warner Park tonight
To: Tn Bird List
I went to Warner Park, Nashville, Davidson County, tonight July 15, 2015 at sun
down with my camera to try to see the Kentucky Warbler again.
I went back to the same spot by the stream, East of the Natchez Trace
trailhead, and heard it immediately.
I never use bird songs or devices to "trick" birds to come closer, but it was
getting dark and I really wanted to see it and determine if a possible nest was
close by. I heard wren like sounds coming from the ground and the Warbler was
close to that area, making his agitated sound. I then played the call song (via
Cornell's All About Birds page) from my smartphone and for a good half hour it
flew close around me, once flying so close to my shoulder that I felt air from
his wingbeat. I had walked about 50 feet through the water to observe him. Each
time he'd go to where I heard the wren-like sounds, he'd make his agitated
sound, then fly around and land on the stream bank and up to a low branch. I
continued to hear other sounds of the Kentucky Warbler but other than the male
close to am guessing there is a nest to the North of the steam.
(This was my first life warbler as a kid at Radnor Lake so it has special
meaning to me.)
I then walked the road between the Nature Center and Natchez trailhead, all the
cars were gone from the parking lot, and birds started to land on the drive in
front of me:
Indigo Buntings
Bluebirds
Bobolinks
Field Sparrows
And then in the grassy area by the meadow - Grasshopper Sparrows 'sneaking'
around in the grass, Phoebe, Goldfinch, of course Tree Swallows, a Red Tail
Hawk in flight, Black and Turkey Vultures, Eastern Towhee, possible Blue
Grosbeak - it was getting dark . . . (and a family of rabbits, many frogs and
toads, five species of Butterfly, cool insects scouring the blooming Prairie
plants), but I am tempted to go back at dusk tomorrow with a camping chair and
watch the "show" again!
Ashley Heeney
Nashville
Davidson County
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