Natchez Trace State Park is named for the famous "Natchez to Nashville" highway, an important wilderness road during the early 18th century. The park was built as part of President Roosevelt's "New Deal" program. The land was bought from residents who could no longer make a living farming the land because of extensive erosion problems.
We have really enjoyed driving around the park and doing a little hiking. We've seen a few people fishing but other than that, the park is almost empty.
We've run into some nice little groups of birds.
Baltimore Oriole
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Broad-winged Hawk
Chipping Sparrow
Eastern Kingbird
Palm Warbler
Swainson's Thrush
American Goldfinch
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Nice to have the park to yourself eh? Did you get more rain today? It rained here but not as much as expected. Missed us but further north (in NY) they had power outages. I heard there was a tornado in the general vicinity, though. Quite unusual!
ReplyDeleteLove the colors of that Baltimore Oriole. Pretty pretty bird.
Hi Julee-
ReplyDeleteAfter one more day of storms and rain, it finally cleared up last night. We had three days of really bad storms, winds, Tornado Warning, etc., but we missed the worst of it. Within the park we stayed in a tree blew down on a residence and they closed the northern section of the park due to trees on the roads!
I'm glad you are o.k. I saw on the news there were tornadoes in Tennessee. Good that no trees fell on you!
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