Nashville-Davidson Co. TN
April 27, 2016
To spite the forecast of 40% chance of thunderstorms, the second of our four spring Wednesday morning walks at Radnor Lake was dry, sunny and “birdie". Many thanks to Richard Conners who lead the 28 participants on this morning’s adventure. Many saw first of season birds, others saw life birds but everyone had a great time. In addition we were joined this morning by a camera crew from NPT’sTN Crossroads who is producing a program on TOS birding and Radnor Lake. Thanks to John Kell for helping as the point of contact this morning. We’ll be sure to let everyone know the air date for the show once the filming is complete.
As usual Radnor did not disappoint anyone this morning. We all enjoyed very close-up views of a hunting Barred Owl, a beautiful male Scarlet Tanager foraging directly over head, singing Yellow-throated, Blue-headed and Warbling Vireos, 15 species of warblers flitting among the canopy and the last of season singing Ruby-crowned Kinglets to highlight just a few of the 68 species seen or heard today. The complete list can be found below.
| Canada Goose – 8 Wood Duck – 6 Blue-winged Teal – 5 Wild Turkey – 4 Pied-billed Grebe – 2 Double-crested Cormorant – 1 Great Blue Heron – 1 Turkey Vulture – 1 Red-shouldered Hawk – 1 Red-tailed Hawk – 2 Broad-winged Hawk – 1 Yellow-billed Cuckoo – 1 Barred Owl – 2 Chimney Swift – 2 Ruby-throated Hummingbird – 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker – 4 Downy Woodpecker – 3 Pileated Woodpecker – 4 Eastern Wood-Pewee – 2 Acadian Flycatcher – 1 Great Crested Flycatcher – 1 Eastern Kingbird – 2 White-eyed Vireo – 2 Yellow-throated Vireo – 2 Warbling Vireo – 1 Red-eyed Vireo – 4 Blue-headed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay – 5 American Crow – 1 Northern Rough-winged Swallow – 1 Barn Swallow – 5 Carolina Chickadee – 14 Tufted Titmouse – 11 White-breasted Nuthatch – 1 |
Carolina Wren – 7 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher – 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglet – 3 Eastern Bluebird – 2 Veery – 1 Swainson’s Thrush – 1 Wood Thrush – 2 Gray Catbird – 1 Louisiana Waterthrush – 1 Prothonotary Warbler – 2 Tennessee Warbler – 3 Hooded Warbler – 1 American Redstart – 1 Cape May Warbler – 1 Northern Parula – 1 Magnolia Warbler – 1 Yellow Warbler – 3 Chestnut-sided Warbler – 2 Blackpoll Warbler – 2 Palm Warbler – 10 Yellow-rumped Warbler – 8 Yellow-throated Warbler – 1 Black-throated Green Warbler – 3 Eastern Towhee – 1 White-throated Sparrow – 5 Summer Tanager – 4 Scarlet Tanager – 1 Northern Cardinal – 20 Rose-breasted Grosbeak – 5 Red-winged Blackbird – 2 Brown-headed Cowbird – 5 Orchard Oriole – 1 Baltimore Oriole – 1 American Goldfinch - 6 |
Cyndi Routledge
