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[hoyle <hoyle@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Cades Cove CBC was held on Wednesday, December 31, 2005.
There were 13 participants in 6 parties. The weather was
unseasonably warm. It was very windy in the morning with rain
beginnning around 1:00. Most participants stopped around 2:00.
Due to the weather, numbers for many species were low.

A high count of Bufflehead was recorded, but many species
were missed such as Wild Turkey, American Coot, Killdeer,
Cedar Waxwing, Yellow-rumped Warbler, Eastern Meadowlark,
and Red Crossbill.

Two new species were added to the list:

Common Loon at Top Of the World by Warren Bielenberg
Great Egret on the Little River at Townsend by Tony and Denise King

Count week species: Ring-necked Duck, Northern Harrier

Total species reported: 56

Canada Goose 39
Wood Duck 2
Mallard 57
Bufflehead 58
Hooded Merganser 1
Ruffed Grouse 1
Common Loon 1
Pied-billed Grebe 8
Great Blue Heron 2
Great Egret 1
Black Vulture 42
Turkey Vulture 41
Cooper's Hawk 3
Red-shouldered Hawk 4
Red-tailed Hawk 2
American Kestrel 2
Wilson's Snipe 2
Rock Pigeon 2
Mourning Dove 72
Eastern Screech-Owl 1
Belted Kingfisher 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 11
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 7
Downy Woodpecker 29
Hairy Woodpecker 4
Northern Flicker 3
Pileated Woodpecker 25
Eastern Phoebe 4
Blue Jay 22
American Crow 147
Common Raven 6
Carolina Chickadee 118
Tufted Titmouse 76
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 33
Brown Creeper 1
Carolina Wren 32
Winter Wren 9
Golden-crowned Kinglet 33
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Eastern Bluebird 40
Hermit Thrush 7
American Robin 40
Northern Mockingbird 8
Brown Thrasher 2
European Starling 148
American Pipit 1
Eastern Towhee 6
Field Sparrow 19
Song Sparrow 35
Swamp Sparrow 3
White-throated Sparrow 64
Dark-eyed Junco 65
Northern Cardinal 56
House Finch 3
American Goldfinch 18



Number of individuals: 1430


Participants:

  Armstrong, Mark
  Bales, Lyn
  Bielenberg, Warren
  Hartigan, Paul
  Hoyle, Susan
  Human, Jim
  James, Evan
  Johnson, Kris
  King, Denise
  King, Tony
  Nowlin, Cindy
  Rudolph, Martha
  Trently, David

Susan Hoyle, Compiler
Knoxville, TN


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