This is a resend of an earlier posting. Radnor Lake State Natural Area Davidson Co. 2011 Mar. 26 7:20-9:20am cloudy and cool Saturday morning my wife Bonnie and I decided to walk around Radnor Lake before the rain arrived. It was an enjoyable morning with lots of wildflowers beginning to bloom. We saw or heard 40 species including several first of the year birds. The list is below. Many wintering species are on the move. Plenty of duck species are still around to remind us of winter. We saw several groups of YELLOW-RUMPED WARBLERs, a number of GOLDEN-CROWNED KINGLETs and BROWN CREEPERs plus several RUBY-CROWNED KINGLETs. However it was the migrating spring birds that were the treats. We had a nice group of BARN, TREE, and N. ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWs coursing over the lake. A ranger pointed out an OSPREY perched in a tree in the north cove area. Also first of the year birds were two singing LOUISIANA WARBLERs and a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER around the dam. Another first was a BLUE-HEADED VIREO that was singing and seen just before Long Bridge. Walkers mentioned BARRED OWLs in a couple locations and we found one of them. Canada Goose 8 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Wood Duck 7 Northern Shoveler 1 Ring-necked Duck 4 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 3 Ruddy Duck 22 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Osprey 1 American Coot 23 Barred Owl 1 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 3 Hairy Woodpecker 1 Pileated Woodpecker 2 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Blue Jay 1 American Crow 2 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 23 Tree Swallow 9 Barn Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 11 Tufted Titmouse 7 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 4 Carolina Wren 2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 8 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 Hermit Thrush (Northern/Eastern) 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler (Myrtle) 65 Louisiana Waterthrush 2 Field Sparrow 3 White-throated Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 12 Brown-headed Cowbird 8 American Goldfinch 3 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) Frank Fekel Nashville, TN =================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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________