Our pastor announced a birding trip to Radnor Lake (on the south side of Nashville) for Sabbath afternoon. M and I decided to go--got there a few minutes late (had to do medicine with Mr. M before leaving) but caught up with the pastor, his wife, and one of the academy staff shortly down the trail.
I wasn't able to get pictures of the birds we saw--most were either too far away or hiding in and out of leaves--but will link to pics for anyone without a field guide.
We'd only gone a short way down the trail when we saw a Swainson's Thrush. We continued down the trail and crossed the bridge over a small dam to a Ranger's house. Looking up into the trees around the house, we saw many warblers--5 of which were lifers for me.
We saw the following birds from the areas around the Ranger's house (which looked out over the lake):
Chestnut-sided Warbler* lifer
Blackburnian Warbler* lifer
Prothonotary Warbler
Chimney Swift
Blackpoll Warbler *lifer
Gray Catbird
Wood Duck
Rough-winged Swallow
Red-eyed Vireo
Magnolia Warbler
Black-throated Green Warbler* lifer
Belted Kingfisher
American Redstart
Bald Eagle
Bay-breasted Warbler*lifer
Scarlet Tanager (actually on the trail back to the parking lot)
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Plus, there were more common birds such as the Canada Goose, Tufted Titmouse, and Downy Woodpecker.
Monday, May 12, 2008
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3 comments:
OOOoooohhhhh! Mouth waters! What a great list! I'm jealous, that would have added at least two lifers for me and bumped my year list up pretty good too (8). Glad you had such fun.
Which two would have been lifers for you? It bumped my list up pretty good too. Those plus some others seen since Sabbath have made my May list go up to 73. My best month ever (I think).
Lifers:
Blackburnian Warbler
Blackpoll Warbler
and probably Prothonotary Warbler
Additional year birds:
Swainson's Thrush
Wood Duck
Red-eyed Vireo
Bay-breasted Warbler
Scarlet Tanager
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