* Tennessee
* Statewide
* 1999, March 23
* TNTN9903.23
- Birds Mentioned
Great Egret
American Golden Plover
Ruff
Common Snipe
Lesser Yellowlegs
Rufous Hummingbird
Cinnamon Teal
Greater Scaup
Red-breasted Merganser
Bald Eagle
Golden Eagle
Purple Martin
Barn Swallow
Northern Rough-winged Swallow
Blue-headed Vireo
House Wren
Black-and-white Warbler
Louisiana Waterthrush
Northern Parula
Vesper Sparrow
Savannah Sparrow
Baltimore Oriole
Pine Siskin
Purple Finch
-Transcript
sponsor: Wood Thrush Shop, Nashville, TN., in cooperation
with the Tennessee Ornithological Society
RBA phone #: (615) 356-7636
compiler: Chris Sloan (chris.sloan@vanderbilt.edu)
transcribers: Chris Sloan, Paul Hertzel (phertzel@utm.edu)
remarks: The following is an edited version of the script
used by the compiler.
Hello, this is Chris Sloan and the BirdLine, sponsored by The Wood
Thrush Shop in Nashville and in Franklin, and the Nashville Chapter
of TOS. Bird Report 7, March 23, 9:45 PM. You may press # at any time
to leave a message, or you can email your reports to me at
chris.sloan@vanderbilt.edu. If you would like to receive email updates
of this report, email me at that same address. For all your wild bird
supplies, call the Wood Thrush Shop in Nashville at 356-7640 and in
Franklin at 595-6327.
The Wood Thrush Shop has recently expanded to include a full line of
Leica optics, now in stock. Call the shop for details.
Spring migration is gaining steam. What follows is a chronological
listing of first reports for the spring.
On March 5th, a HOUSE WREN was found singing in an apartment complex in
Bellevue.
On March 16th, the first GREAT EGRET was seen at Mustin Bottoms.
A number of first reports for the spring all fell on March 19th,
including LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH in Williamson County, 26 AMERICAN
GOLDEN-PLOVERS at Mustin Bottoms, BARN SWALLOW at Radnor Lake, 4 NORTHERN
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS, also at Radnor, and a BLUE-HEADED
VIREO in a Knoxville yard.
March 20th and 22nd produced the first two BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLERS,
both in Nashville yards.
March 21st produced the first NORTHERN PARULA at Radnor Lake.
A few interesting winter bird reports are also still trickling in. A
lone PINE SISKIN visited a feeder in Caryville during the snow on March
13th. A number of PURPLE FINCHES, mostly females but with
a few males, were regular visitors at a feeder on Monteagle from late
February into early March. RUFOUS HUMMINGBIRDS are still
present at feeders in Nashville, Murfreesboro, and Dayton. The BALTIMORE
ORIOLE present at an Antioch feeder since December 18th was last seen on
March 18th.
March is one of the peak seasons for migrating waterfowl, and a number
of recent reports illustrate this. Most interesting was a one day
report of a male CINNAMON TEAL at a pond near the Air Park Inn in Lake
County. A single male GREATER SCAUP at Radnor Lake on the 17th was also
noteworthy. We received two reports of large migrating flocks of
RED-BREASTED MERGANSERS - 64 at Percy Priest Lake on March 14th and 25 at
Radnor Lake on March 17th.
We have also received two interesting eagle reports recently. On March
6th, a color-banded second-year BALD EAGLE was seen in the Nolensville
area. TWRA has indicated that this bird was most likely banded in
Indiana. On March 17th, an immature GOLDEN EAGLE was observed near the
Arnold Engineering Development Center near Tullahoma.
Shelby Bottoms on March 23rd hosted 7 VESPER SPARROWS, 4 SAVANNAH
SPARROWS, 1 LESSER YELLOWLEGS, 1 COMMON SNIPE, and 6 NORTHERN
ROUGH-WINGED SWALLOWS.
Farther afield, a REEVE was seen for a couple of days in Quitman County
in Northern Mississippi on March 12th and 13th.
Purple Martins are showing up in numbers now, and the spring songbird
migration is underway.
The next NTOS field trip will be March 27th to Narrows of the
Harpeth, and the next meeting will be April 15th at 7:30 PM at
Radnor Lake State Natural Area. Get out and see what you can see.
Thanks for calling, and good birding!
- End transcript
* The Wood Thrush Shop is located in Nashville, Tennessee.
* For membership information on the TOS see:
http://www.nashville.com/~edwin.gleaves/ntosbroc.htm
or http://funnelweb.utcc.utk.edu/~awjones/TOS.html