The NTOS 2025 Christmas Bird Counts dates will be Saturday, December 20th and Thursday, Januaary 1st. Information will be forthcoming as time draws nearer....but mark those calendars and join us for this annual event.

NTOS Second Christmas Bird Count will take place on January 1st.  For information or to volunteer please contact Richard Connors - didymops07@gmail.com Please put CBC in the subject... Thank you!

CANCELLED DUE TO DANGEROUS ROAD CONDITIONS....Kick off the new birding year with NTOS as we head west to the beautiful Hatchie National Wildlife Refuge! We will join trip leader Mark Greene for a morning walk around O’Neal Lake, where we’ll search for flocks of wintering waterfowl and scan the surrounding fields for seasonal specialties. Our

What better way to brighten up chilly February than with two NTOS field trips on the calendar? First up: Saturday, February 14th, when we’ll head to one of Tennessee’s premier birding hotspots, the Fowler Road Irrigation Pond. Trip leader Avery Fish knows this site very well and has turned up an impressive list of species

For our second field trip of the month, we’re staying close to home and heading to one of Nashville’s popular birding spots: Cornelia Fort Airpark in Shelby Bottoms Park. Trip leader Ariel Dunham, an expert on the birds of Shelby Park, will guide us on this outing on Saturday, February 28th. This trip offers a

Come explore Lytle Park, one of the newest gems in Nashville’s expanding park system! Our fall field trips to this park have consistently drawn great interest, and this year we’re switching things up with a visit in a different season. March brings a unique blend of lingering winter species and the earliest signs of spring

Join NTOS for a spring field trip to the Gossett Tract of Harpeth River State Park (1230 Cedar Hill Rd, Kingston Springs, TN 37082), a scenic riverside property in Kingston Springs. This tract features a mix of open fields, riparian habitat along the Harpeth River, and wooded edges making it an excellent spot to look

Join us for these ever popular Wednesday morning Spring migration walks at Radnor Lake State Park. Meet at the kiosk to the right of the Visitor's Center by 7:30 am. If you get stuck in traffic or are running a bit late...we always take the same route.  Up the road, across the spillway and up

Evening migratoin walk - Shelby Bottoms Park – Phase 3/Forrest Green Trailhead. (Parking lot coordinates: 36.19728, -86.70295). Each evening’s walk will begin at 5:00 pm. We will walk along a flat, paved trail that allows for easy birding. The route will take us straight out from the parking lot, with a left turn at the

Join us for these ever popular Wednesday morning Spring migration walks at Radnor Lake State Park. Meet at the kiosk to the right of the Visitor's Center by 7:30 am on the 29th. If you get stuck in traffic or are running a bit late...we always take the same route.  Up the road, across the

Shelby Bottoms Park – Phase 3/Forrest Green Trailhead. (Parking lot coordinates: 36.19728, -86.70295). Each evening’s walk will begin at 5:00 pm. We will walk along a flat, paved trail that allows for easy birding. The route will take us straight out from the parking lot, with a left turn at the river, looping back to the