[TN-Bird] Discovery Center - Murfreesboro, Northern Waterthrush

From: "Scott Somershoe" <Scott.Somershoe@xxxxxx>
To: <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2011 10:41:24 -0500
I had a couple hours this morning and decided to do a little birding.  I spent 
some time at the Disco center in murfreesboro.  Bob Ingles was leaving when I 
arrived and only noted a Yellow Warbler.  I quickly found a Prairie Warbler 
singing a funny song (half Field Sparrow-like) by the parking lot.  I refound 
the yellow warbler and also had a few other migrants including a Hooded 
Warbler, 2 white-eyed vireos, 1 common yellowthroat, and a northern 
waterthrush.  A field sparrow along the edge of the lake was odd. Two singing 
Swamp Sparrows were a nice treat (I don't hear them sing often).

I also watched 3 male red-winged blackbirds nearly drown a female red-winged in 
the water.  The female escaped and disappeared into the thick aquatic 
vegetation for a couple minutes before popping back up.

I made a stop by the flooded fields on Kimbro Rd:
62 blue-winged teal
1 male shoveler
2 pied-billed grebe
female mallard with 13 ducklings
3 lesser yellowlegs
1 cliff swallow among the swallow flock

Good birding,
Scott Somershoe


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