The Nashville Spring Count was held on both May 3 and 4 because some groups couldn't get out on the 4th. The count was held a week earlier than usual. The total of 164 species was the highest since 1998 when 171 were counted. Thirty-five warbler species were seen, just missing Wilson's and Canada. Other highlights were Snowy Egret, Little Blue Heron, 12 species of shorebirds including 7 Willets, Red-headed Woodpeckers, all the vireos and swallows, a late Brown Creeper, Marsh Wren, Savannah, Grasshopper, Swamp and White-crowned sparrows, 69 Bobolinks, and 17 Pine Siskins at a feeder. Thank you to all 29 observers. Canada goose 149 wood duck 35 mallard 59 gadwall 2 hooded merganser 4 ruddy duck 1 wild turkey 19 northern bobwhite 8 common loon 6 double-crested cormorant 221 great blue heron 232 great egret 39 snowy egret 1 little blue heron 1 green heron 6 black-crowned night-heron 326 yellow-crowned night-heron 3 black vulture 182 turkey vulture 126 osprey 2 bald eagle 1 northern harrier 2 cooper's hawk 3 red-shouldered hawk 9 red-tailed hawk 24 American kestrel 8 American coot 3 semipalmated plover 14 killdeer 23 greater yellowlegs 1 lesser yellowlegs 19 solitary sandpiper 11 willet 7 spotted sandpiper 16 semipalmated sandpiper 5 least sandpiper 176 white-rumped sandpiper 1 pectoral sandpiper 1 dunlin 1 ring-billed gull 15 laughing gull 1 caspian tern 1 forster's tern 11 rock pigeon 56 Eurasian collared-dove 1 mourning dove 111 yellow-billed cuckoo 4 barred owl 13 chuck-will's-widow 3 chimney swift 144 ruby-throated hummingbird 10 belted kingfisher 10 red-headed woodpecker 6 red-bellied woodpecker 55 downy woodpecker 31 hairy woodpecker 8 northern flicker 12 pileated woodpecker 14 eastern wood-pewee 42 acadian flycatcher 13 least flycatcher 2 eastern phoebe 41 great crested flycatcher 38 eastern kingbird 61 scissor-tailed flycatcher 2 loggerhead shrike 1 white-eyed vireo 61 yellow-throated vireo 15 blue-headed vireo 6 warbling vireo 23 Philadelphia vireo 6 red-eyed vireo 132 blue jay 95 American crow 64 purple martin 108 tree swallow 70 northern rough-winged swallow 80 bank swallow 2 cliff swallow 397 barn swallow 75 carolina chickadee 114 tufted titmouse 109 white-breasted nuthatch 22 brown creeper 1 carolina wren 90 bewick's wren 1 house wren 3 marsh wren 1 ruby-crowned kinglet 6 blue-gray gnatcatcher 155 eastern bluebird 97 veery 10 gray-cheeked thrush 3 swainson's thrush 57 wood thrush 46 American robin 100 gray catbird 20 northern mockingbird 59 brown thrasher 27 European starling 598 cedar waxwing 42 blue-winged warbler 6 golden-winged warbler 1 Tennessee warbler 91 orange-crowned warbler 2 Nashville warbler 42 northern parula 16 yellow warbler 20 chestnut-sided warbler 28 magnolia warbler 22 cape may warbler 10 black-throated blue warbler 1 yellow-rumped warbler 150 black-throated green warbler 34 blackburnian 3 yellow-throated warbler 24 pine warbler 8 prairie warbler 32 palm warbler 48 bay-breasted warbler 12 blackpoll warbler 65 cerulean warbler 1 black-and-white warbler 20 American redstart 16 prothonotary warbler 24 worm-eating warbler 13 swainson's warbler 1 ovenbird 7 northern waterthrush 10 Louisiana waterthrush 7 Kentucky warbler 28 Connecticut warbler 1 mourning warbler 2 common yellowthroat 45 hooded warbler 13 yellow-breasted chat 35 summer tanager 47 scarlet tanager 57 eastern towhee 63 chipping sparrow 48 field sparrow 70 savannah sparrow 5 grasshopper sparrow 3 song sparrow 9 swamp sparrow 2 white-crowned sparrow 2 white-throated sparrow 23 northern cardinal 215 rose-breasted grosbeak 70 blue grosbeak 3 indigo bunting 178 dickcissel 4 bobolink 69 red-winged blackbird 178 eastern meadowlark 52 common grackle 164 brown-headed cowbird 86 orchard oriole 38 Baltimore oriole 12 house finch 34 pine siskin 17 American goldfinch 140 house sparrow 39 Jan Shaw, compiler Nashville, Tn **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? 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