[Bristol-Birds] Elizabethton spring count
- From: "Richard Knight" <rknight8@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "bristol-birds" <bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "tn-bird" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 6 May 2011 15:09:05 -0400
The Lee & Lois Herndon chapter of TOS conducted the 68th consecutive
Elizabethton Spring Count on Saturday, 30 April 2011. The weather was
nearly perfect, although it was rather cool to start.
Area covered: Carter Co., & parts of adjacent Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi,
& Washington Cos.
30 observers in 6 parties tallied 152 species.
That's slightly above the 10-year (150 spp.) and 30-year (145 spp.) averages.
The all-time high was 161 species in 2005.
Here's the list:
Canada Goose - 302
Wood Duck - 46
Mallard - 92
Blue-wg. Teal - 6
Ring-nk. Duck - 1
Bufflehead - 2
Red-br. Merganser - 3
Ruffed Grouse - 4
Wild Turkey - 18
N. Bobwhite - 3
Com. Loon - 1
Pied-billed Grebe - 2
Dbl-cr. Cormorant - 6
Great Blue Heron - 28
Great Egret - 1
Green Heron - 14
Yellow-cr. Night-Heron - 3
Black Vulture - 33
Turkey Vulture - 122
Osprey - 13
Bald Eagle - 2
Sharp-sh. Hawk - 2
Cooper's Hawk - 4
Broad-wg. Hawk - 4
Red-tailed Hawk - 21
Am. Kestrel - 7
Virginia Rail - 1
Sora - 1
Am. Coot - 1
Killdeer - 44
Spotted Sandpiper - 33
Solitary Sandpiper - 40
Gr. Yellowlegs - 4
Lsr. Yellowlegs - 10
Least Sandpiper - 8
Wilson's Snipe - 1
Ring-billed Gull - 12
Rock Pigeon - 158
Eur. Collared-Dove - 2
Mourning Dove - 187
Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2
E. Screech-Owl - 7
Great Horned Owl - 2
Barred Owl - 6
N. Saw-whet Owl - 3
Com. Nighthawk - 2
Chuck-will's-widow - 3
Whip-poor-will - 33
Chimney Swift - 230
Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 30
Belted Kingfisher - 9
Red-hd. Woodpecker - 3
Red-bel. Woodpecker - 51
Yellow-bel. Sapsucker - 1
Downy Woodpecker - 23
Hairy Woodpecker - 5
N. Flicker - 19
Pileated Woodpecker - 46
E. Wood-Pewee - 2
Acadian Flycatcher - 14
Least Flycatcher - 12
E. Phoebe - 63
Great Crested Flycatcher - 8
E. Kingbird - 90
Loggerhead Shrike - 1
White-eyed Vireo - 4
Yellow-thr. Vireo - 5
Blue-hd. Vireo - 56
Warbling Vireo - 6
Red-eyed Vireo - 230
Blue Jay - 141
Am. Crow - 271
Com. Raven - 8
Horned Lark - 1
Purple Martin - 76
Tree Swallow - 325
N. Rough-wg. Swallow - 123
Cliff Swallow - 270
Barn Swallow - 183
Carolina Chickadee - 74
Tufted Titmouse - 86
Red-br. Nuthatch - 12
White-br. Nuthatch - 16
Brown Creeper - 10
Carolina Wren - 91
House Wren - 49
Winter Wren - 5
Golden-cr. Kinglet - 1
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 65
E. Bluebird - 131
Veery - 20
Hermit Thrush - 7
Wood Thrush - 85
Am. Robin - 521
Gray Catbird - 47
N. Mockingbird - 116
Brown Thrasher - 29
Eur. Starling - 731
Cedar Waxwing - 7
warblers: 25 spp., very few purely transient spp.
Blue-wg. - 2
Golden-wg. - 7
N. Parula - 27
Yellow - 18
Chestnut-sd. - 41
Magnolia - 1
Black-thr. Blue - 120
Yellow-rumped - 48
Black-thr. Green - 100
Blackburnian - 12
Yellow-thr. - 14
Pine - 6
Prairie - 6
Palm - 1
Black & white - 70
Am. Redstart - 12
Worm-eating - 7
Swainson's - 3
Ovenbird - 142
La. Waterthrush - 20
Kentucky - 3
Com. Yellowthroat - 21
Hooded - 171
Canada - 44
Yellow-br, Chat - 5
E. Towhee - 128
Chipping Sparrow - 115
Field Sparrow - 61
Savannah Sparrow - 19
Grasshopper Sparrow - 4
Song Sparrow - 248
Swamp Sparrow - 3
White-thr. Sparrow - 28
White-cr. Sparrow - 20
Dark-eyed Junco 90
Summer Tanager - 2
Scarlet Tanager - 67
N. Cardinal - 211
Rose-br. Grosbeak - 26
Blue Grosbeak - 4
Indigo Bunting - 148
Red-wg. Blackbird - 425
E. Meadowlark - 94
Com. Grackle - 300
Brown-hd. Cowbird - 84
Orchard Oriole - 35
Baltimore Oriole - 15
Purple Finch - 1
House Finch - 34
Red Crossbill - 2
Pine Siskin - 8
Am. Goldfinch - 235
House Sparrow - 93
--------------------------------------
total 152 species
only notable miss: Ruby-cr. Kinglet - first miss since 1981.
####################
Rick Knight
Johnson City, TN
Other related posts:
