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["Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Elizabethron Fall Bird Count:

The Lee & Lois Herndon Chapter of TOS held its annual fall count on 29 Sep 2007.
26 observers in 7 parties + 2 feeder watchers participated.
Area covered = Carter Co., & parts of adjacent Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, & 
Washington Cos.

130 species were found, which is above the average of 124.4 species for the 
previous
twenty years.  The all-time high for this count is 137 species found in 1993.
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highlights:
Great Egret:  118 - separate flocks of 75 & 43  (Both exceeded the previous 
high number for the region.)

10 species of raptors, including a Merlin & 2 Peregrines.

Sora:  1

Baird's Sandpiper:  1  (First local record in 10 years.)   Only 3 other 
non-Killdeer shorebird species.

N. Saw-whet Owl:  1

Chimney Swift:  1270  (Third highest total on fall counts.)

Red-headed Woodpecker:  1
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker: 7

Olive-sided Flycatcher:  1

5 vireo species, including 1 Philadelphia  (scarce in NE Tenn.)

Com. Raven:  13  (Found by 5 parties.)

Red-breasted Nuthatch:  20 , including several found at low elevation sites.

Am. Pipit:  1

23 warbler species:
Tennessee:  60
Orange-cr.:  1
Nashville:  1
N. Parula:  2
Chestnut-sd.:  2
Magnolia:  9
Cape May:  10
Black-thr. Blue:  10
Yellow-rumped:  19
Black-thr. Green:  6
Blackburnian:  6
Yellow-throated:  1
Pine:  4
Palm:  64
Bay-breasted:  8
Black & white: 1
Am. Redstart:  2
Ovenbird:  8
N. Waterthrush:  1
Com. Yellowthroat:  4
Hooded:  5
Wilson's:  1
Canada:  1

a few migrant sparrows, including 3 Lincoln's & single Swamp & White-thr.

Rose-br. Grosbeak:  173

Bobolink:  2

Pine Siskin:  15
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Parties:
1)  Tom McNeil, David Kirschke, Jim & Darla Anderson.

2)  Fred & JoAnn Alsop, Paul Haynes, Mark & Marci Dunaway.

3)  Gary Wallace, Bryan Stevens, Reece Jamerson, Tess Cumbie,
Brookie & Jean Potter, David Thometz, Glen Eller.

4)  Wallace & Carolyn Coffey.

5)  Joe McGuiness, Kim Stroud.

6)  Rick Knight, Gil Derouen.

7)  Mark Hopey, Kathy Gunther, Cleo Mayfield  (operating Big Bald banding 
station).

Feeder watchers:  Brenda Wallace, Peggy Stevens.
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Rick Knight, compiler
Johnson City, TN