Nashville, TN
May 6, 2015
Twenty-plus birders joined the NTOS Wednesday walk at Radnor Lake today. The weather was sunny, without wind, temperature ranging from 65 degrees at 7:30 to 81 degrees at 10:45 am. Warbler migration appears to have peaked, but we saw and/or heard 10 warbler species. Highlights of the morning were watching barn swallows gather mud for their nest under the rafters at the old visitor's center; watching a Red-eyed and a Philadelphia Vireo within feet of each other in a willow below the dam, and good looks at a Bay-breasted Warbler fairly low in a tangle of trees not far down the lakeside trail from the dam. A total of 44 species were seen and/or heard as follows:
| Canada Goose 13 Wood Duck 6 Mallard 1 Wild Turkey- loud gobbling out of sight Turkey Vulture 1 Spotted Sandpiper 1 Mourning Dove 2 Chimney Swift 3 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 2 Belted Kingfisher 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 6 Downy Woodpecker 2 Pileated Woodpecker 3 Eastern Wood Pewee 2 Acadian Flycatcher 3 Great Crested Flycatcher 4 Eastern Kingbird 3 White-eyed Vireo 6 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 1 Philadelphia Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 3 |
Blue Jay 2 American Crow 2 Barn Swallow 2 Carolina Chickadee 2 Tufted Titmouse 4 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 6 Swainson's Thrush 1 Louisiana Waterthrush 1 Northern Waterthrush 1 Tennessee Warbler 2 Kentucky Warbler 2 American Redstart 1 Northern Parula 3 Bay-breasted Warbler 3 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler 2 Field sparrow 1 Summer Tanager 3 Northern Cardinal 8 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 3 American Goldfinch 4 |
Camille Monohan
