[tn-bird] Knox Co spring count results



The Knoxville Chapter of the Tennessee Ornithological Society held
their annual spring count on Sunday, 28 April 2002.  Twenty-five
observers in 15-17 parties endured scattered showers and winds up
to 25mph in the morning.  A few brave(?) souls ventured out in the
evening, dodging severe thunderstorms with golfball-sized hail and
tornado warnings (NOTE: this is not something the compiler
recommends).

We found 5192 individuals of 127 species plus 3 more during count
week.  We seem to be stuck on 127 as that has been the total for
three consecutive years now.  Including count-week birds, this is
the lowest species total in the past 6 years.  During that time, we
have found 162 species plus 3 others found only during count week.

Highlights included a Least Flycatcher indentified by voice by Chris
Welsh, Northern Harrier, 30 species of warbler (plus two more during
count week) and Warbling Vireo.

Big misses included Great Horned Owl, Common Nighthawk, Bank Swallow,
and Grasshopper Sparrow.

A full report follows.


Dean Edwards (compiler)
Knoxville,TN
kde@xxxxxxx

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2002 Knox County Spring Count
Knox County, TN
28 April 2002

Weather:  AM: windy with scattered showers
          PM: scattered severe thunderstorms with hail and tornado
                warnings
Temperature:  Low: 63F, High: 84F
Wind: WSW, up to 25mph sustained

Observers:  25 (see below for list)
Parties:  15-17
Total individuals:  5192
Total species:  127 (+3 during count week)

Party hours:
   by foot:  42.00 hrs
   by car:   11.75 hrs
   owling:    1.50 hrs
   feeders:   6.50 hrs
   TOTAL:    61.75 hrs

Party miles:
   by foot:   37.5 miles
   by car:   119.5 miles
   owling:     2.0 miles
   TOTAL:    159.0 miles

Hours covered:  00:00-00:30, 06:15-20:20

Species:

  62  Double-crested Cormorant
   5  Pied-billed Grebe

  95  Great Blue Heron
   5  Green Heron
  17  Black-crowned Night-Heron

  15  Black Vulture
  62  Turkey Vulture

 100  Canada Goose
  29  Wood Duck
  23  Mallard
   2  Gadwall

   7  Osprey
   1  Northern Harrier
   1  Sharp-shinned Hawk
   3  Cooper's Hawk
   2    Accipiter sp.
   4  Red-shouldered Hawk
   1  Broad-winged Hawk
  10  Red-tailed Hawk
   6  American Kestrel

   6  Northern Bobwhite
   8  Wild Turkey

  18  Killdeer
   2  Solitary Sandpiper
  10  Spotted Sandpiper
   2  Least Sandpiper

  58  Rock Dove
 205  Mourning Dove

   3  Yellow-billed Cuckoo

   2  Eastern Screech-Owl
   1  Barred Owl

   1  Chuck-Will's-widow

 100  Chimney Swift

   5  Ruby-throated Hummingbird

   6  Belted Kingfisher

  39  Red-bellied Woodpecker
  13  Downy Woodpecker
   5  Hairy Woodpecker
  12  ``Yellow-shafted'' Northern Flicker
   4  Pileated Woodpecker

   1  Least Flycatcher
  13  Eastern Phoebe
  11  Great Crested Flycatcher
  37  Eastern Kingbird

  21  White-eyed Vireo
   2  Yellow-throated Vireo
   2  Blue-headed Vireo
   1  Warbling Vireo
  62  Red-eyed Vireo

 120  Blue Jay
 166  American Crow

   9  Purple Martin
  16  Tree Swallow
  50  Northern Rough-winged Swallow
  10  Cliff Swallow
  51  Barn Swallow

  99  Carolina Chickadee
  72  Tufted Titmouse
-CW-  Red-breasted Nuthatch
   4  White-breasted Nuthatch

 111  Carolina Wren
   7  House Wren

   4  Ruby-crowned Kinglet
  37  Blue-gray Gnatcatcher

  69  Eastern Bluebird
   3  Veery
   6  Swainson's Thrush
   1  Hermit Thrush
  41  Wood Thrush
 274  American Robin

  19  Gray Catbird
  83  Northern Mockingbird
  40  Brown Thrasher

 569  European Starling

 249  Cedar Waxwing

   5  Blue-winged Warbler
  11  Tennessee Warbler
   2  Orange-crowned Warbler
   3  Nashville Warbler
   2  Northern Parula
   5  Yellow Warbler
   3  Chestnut-sided Warbler
   1  Magnolia Warbler
-CW-  Cape May Warbler
   1  Black-throated Blue Warbler
  87  ``Myrtle'' Yellow-rumped Warbler
  15  Black-throated Green Warbler
   1  Blackburnian Warbler
   1  Yellow-throated Warbler
   2  Pine Warbler
   9  Prairie Warbler
  24  Palm Warbler
   3  Bay-breasted Warbler
   2  Blackpoll Warbler
-CW-  Cerulean Warbler
   9  Black-and-white Warbler
   2  American Redstart
   3  Prothonotary Warbler
   9  Worm-eating Warbler
  14  Ovenbird
   3  Northern Waterthrush
   1  Louisiana Waterthrush
   2  Kentucky Warbler
  56  Common Yellowthroat
  21  Hooded Warbler
   3  Canada Warbler
  23  Yellow-breasted Chat

   2  Summer Tanager
  34  Scarlet Tanager

  67  Eastern Towhee
   8  Chipping Sparrow
  47  Field Sparrow
   5  Savannah Sparrow
 117  Song Sparrow
  10  Swamp Sparrow
 156  White-throated Sparrow
   3  White-crowned Sparrow

 246  Northern Cardinal
   9  Rose-breasted Grosbeak
  13  Blue Grosbeak
 115  Indigo Bunting

  16  Bobolink
 259  Red-winged Blackbird
  55  Eastern Meadowlark
 232  Common Grackle
  68  Brown-headed Cowbird
  30  Orchard Oriole
   2  Baltimore Oriole

  38  House Finch
 106  American Goldfinch

  21  House Sparrow


Observers:

Jane Beintema,
Frank Bills,
Sharon Bostick,
Howard Chitwood,
Meredith Clebsch,
Marcia Davis,
Dean Edwards (compiler, 1615 Meadow Chase Lane, Knoxville TN 37931),
Carole Gobert,
Tony Headrick,
Ron Hoff,
Susan Hoyle,
Wes James,
Kristine Johnson,
Dollyann Myers,
Dan Mooney,
Laurie Mooney,
Chuck Nicholson,
Holly Overton,
Truett Patterson,
Martha Rudolph,
Elizabeth Schilling,
Boyd Sharp,
David Trently,
Chris Welsh,
Elizabeth Mei Wong


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