[TN-Bird] hermit thrush numbers on tn CBCs (2008-2009 season a good one)

The soft mast crop in Tennessee has been good to excellent at most sites
I have visited this winter, and many of the frugivorous bird species are
present in good to excellent numbers as a result, with the Hermit Thrush
(HETH) being a case in point.  I include below a table showing the
all-time high total of HETHs recorded on each of 45 Tennessee CBCs, 30
of which are currently active (note: six other TN CBCs not listed below
have no HETH data at all).  The all-time high count of HETHs achieved on
a CBC in TN as of the 108th CBC (2007-2008) was 69, counted on the
Nickajack CBC in 1995.  The totals below reflect CBC data that have been
posted to Audubon's CBC website and may have been exceeded in a few
cases by totals from counts with historical data that have not yet
posted to that central database.  Accessing such missing data is
time-consuming at best, and I have not made that attempt in order to
provide this information.
 

This year's CBC season has seen the record HETH total on a TN CBC
considerably eclipsed, with 105 being counted on the White County CBC
(and possibly with even higher totals waiting to be posted to the CBC
website from one or more of the 13 counts whose data for this past
season have not yet been posted to the website), a testament to the fine
soft mast crop out there this winter.

 

Steve Stedman

Cookeville, TN

 

 

Count Name

Date

HETH High Count

Ashland City

 12/21/1975

12

Bristol

 01/01/2006

18

Buffalo River

 12/26/2005

35

Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mt. N.P.

 12/22/1935

28

Chattanooga

 12/17/2005

50

Chickasaw Forest

 12/25/1941

14

Clarksville

 01/02/1988

11

Clay County

 12/22/1999

40

Columbia

 12/29/1995

24

Cookeville

 12/15/2001

21

Copperhill

 12/24/1915

1

Cross Creeks N.W.R.

 12/16/1989

27

Crossville

 12/23/2006

6

DeKalb County

 12/30/2003

52

Dresden

 01/03/1987

3 (tie)

Dresden

 12/28/1990

3 (tie)

Duck River Reservoir

 12/16/1989

33

Elizabethton

 12/19/1993

13 (tie)

Elizabethton

 12/16/1995

13 (tie)

Erin

 12/26/1946

1

Fayette County

 12/30/2000

28

Franklin-Coffee County

 12/14/2006

5

Great Smoky Mountains N.P.

 12/20/1942

29 (tie)

Great Smoky Mountains N.P.

 12/26/1955

29 (tie)

Greeneville

 12/20/1938

2

Henderson

 12/31/1945

3 (tie)

Henderson

 12/21/1946

3 (tie)

Hickory-Priest

 01/01/1998

15

Hiwassee

 01/01/1996

60

Humboldt

 12/24/1939

1

Jackson

 12/31/1994

17

Johnson City

 12/28/1941

6

Kingsport

 12/20/1980

6

Knoxville

 12/31/2000

30

Lebanon

 12/20/1980

3

Memphis

 12/24/1939

66

Nashville

 12/20/1997

34

Nickajack Lake

 12/30/1995

69

Norris

 12/17/2005

23

Paris

 12/25/1933

1

Reelfoot Lake

 12/20/1975

54

Roan Mountain

 12/23/1986

5

Savannah

 12/30/1995

33

Shady Valley-Mountain City

 01/01/2007

6

Shiloh N.P.

 12/24/1933

3

Spence Field Bald

 12/21/1936

3

Tazewell

 12/28/1914

3

Warren County

 12/30/2005

9

White County

 12/22/2005

41

 


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