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["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Bristol Christmas Bird Count (Sullivan Co., TN - Washington Co., VA), the 
region's oldest
count first conducted in 1931, was held Sunday, 31 Dec 2006.  
Twenty observers in 6 parties found 81 species which is near average (82.9) for
the past 10 years. The average for the previous 20 years is 77.8.  The all-time 
high 
was 91 species in 2004. 

The best birds:

Northern Saw-whet Owl at Steele Creek Park (Sullivan Co. TN) found by Joe 
McGuiness
and Kim Stroud. It was a new species for the park. One previous Bristol count 
record was
in 1999.

Tundra Swan 1 at Middlebrook Lake (Sullivan Co., TN).  The species has been 
reported
once before in 1992.

Six (6) Eared Grebe marked the eighth year the species has been found on the 
count,
including its first appearance in 1996. 

Snow Goose 1
Canada Goose 388
Mute Swan 4
Tundra Swan 1
Green-winged Teal 17
American Black Duck 4
Mallard 378
Gadwall 16
American Wigeon 53
Ring-necked Duck 71
Bufflehead 247
Hooded Merganser 77
Red-breasted Merganser 1
Ruddy Duck 1
Wild Turkey 8
Pied-billed Grebe 55
Horned Grebe 6
Eared Grebe 7
Double-crested Cormorant 4
Great Blue Heron 15
Black Vulture 12
Turkey Vulture 34
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Cooper's Hawk 5
Red-tailed Hawk 17
American Kestrel 12
American Coot 41
Killdeer 40
Wilson's Snipe 4
Bonaparte's Gull 1
Ring-billed Gull 546
Rock Pigeon 425
Mourning Dove 339
Eastern Screech Owl 10
Great Horned Owl 6
N. Saw-whet Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 19
Red-bellied Woodpecker 40
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 9
Downy Woodpecker 36
Hairy Woodpecker 10
Northern Flicker 25
Pileated Woodpecker 15
Eastern Phoebe 11
Blue Jay 171
American Crow 823
Common Raven 7
Carolina Chickadee 147
Tufted Titmouse 72
White-breasted Nuthatch 37
Brown Creeper 5
Carolina Wren 131
House Wren 2
Winter Wren 6
Golden-crowned Kinglet 51
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 7
Eastern Bluebird 93
Hermit Thrush 4
American Robin 34
Northern Mockingbird 83
Cedar Waxwing 72
Loggerhead Shrike 2
European Starling 2622
Yellow-rumped Warbler 47
Northern Cardinal 166
Eastern Towhee 40
Field Sparrow 2
Savannah Sparrow 1
Fox Sparrow 6
Song Sparrow 109
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 200
White-crowned Sparrow 109
Dark-eyed Junco 128
Snow Bunting 
Red-winged Blackbird 20
Eastern Meadowlark 7
Common Grackle 1
House Finch 45
American Goldfinch 63
House Sparrow 70

Participants:  Andy Jones, John Moyle, Chris O'Bryan, Tom McNeil, Joe 
McGuiness, 
Kim Stroud, Rack Cross, Carol Cross, Dianne Draper, Larry McDaniel, Ron 
Harrington, 
Fred Martin, Janice Martin, Ruddy Morales, Randy Smith, Richard Lewis 
(compiler),
Rob Biller, Don Holt, David Kirschke and Wallace Coffey, 

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN

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