2024 Spring Count numbers…
Here are the results of our recent count, which was held May 4. Canada Goose - 71 Wood Duck - 49 Mallard - 104 Blue-winged Teal - 6 Lesser Scaup - 15 Red-breasted Merganser - 11 Northern Bobwhite - 16 Wild Turkey - 30 Common Loon - 2 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 303 Great Blue Heron - 73 Great Egret - 12 Snowy Egret - 1 Green Heron - 3 Black-crowned Night-Heron - 2 Black Vulture - 205 Turkey Vulture - 29 Osprey - 18 Cooper's Hawk - 4 Bald Eagle - 6 Red-shouldered Hawk - 8 Broad-winged Hawk - 6 Red-tailed Hawk - 17 American Coot - 2 Killdeer - 17 Spotted Sandpiper - 10 Solitary Sandpiper - 4 Least Sandpiper - 5 Ring-billed Gull - 2 Herring Gull - 2 Common Tern - 2 Forster's Tern - 5 Rock Pigeon - 13 Eurasian Collared-Dove - 4
Field Trip to Green Door Gourmet on Saturday, May 18th
Green Door Gourmet Organic Farm Saturday, May 18th, 2024, 6:30am We will tour this 200+ acre working organic farm which is nestled along the Cumberland River right across from Bells Bend Park. Featuring a mix of cedar forest, upland hardwoods, and large agricultural fields, it forms a habitat mosaic that should attract a wide variety of birds. We plan to hike around the entire property along a set of gravel and grass roads that visit these different habitats, and the total distance traveled should be approx. 3 miles. The farm also features restrooms and an organic farm shop where we will conclude the trip. We will meet at 6:30am at the main entrance and insect repellent is strongly recommended. We are keeping a close eye on the weather, and will send updates if storms force us to cancel! Mike Smith Hendersonville, TN
May 8th Radnor Walk – CANCELLED
The May 8th Radnor Lake migration walk has been CANCELLED due to the potential for dangerous storms. We regret this but want everyone to be safe so we're erring on the side of caution. We'll see you in the Fall for more migration walks. Thank you for understanding and be safe!
Colonial Waterbird Study HELP NEEDED…
David Hanni and Intern Maddy are collecting informaiton on their ongoing Colonial Waterbird Study. If you know of an active Rookery in Tennessee, please send the latitude and longitude of said location to David at TWRA. His address is David.Hanni@tn.gov. The more eyes out there looking the more information we can gather. Thank you!!
GREAT BACKYARD BIRD COUNT – FEBRUARY 16-19
The Great Backyard Bird Count will take place on FEBRUARY 16-19, 2024...we hope you'll take part in this world-wide citizen science project! For more informaiton and details on how easy it is to participate check out this link...https://www.birdcount.org/#:~:text=Join%20the%20world%20in%20connecting,learn%20more%20about%20the%20count.&text=Birds%20are%20everywhere%2C%20all%20the,%2C%20count%2C%20and%20celebrate%20birds.
