Area Birders, As some of you will remember a great number of birds migrated through or near my yard last fall. Since it was a snowy day today I decided to compile my data and see just how many birds I actually did see. I chose the period between Aug. 13 and Oct. 13 because most of the migrants appeared during that time. During this 2 month period 65 migrant species came through my yard with a total of 1844 birds, averaging about 1 new species per day and 27.9 birds per day. Keep in mind that these figures do not include the many resident species, such as Cardinals, Goldfinches, Carolina Wrens, Red-bellied, Downy and Pileated Woodpeckers, etc. I then separated the warblers just to get specific warbler data. I calculated that 25 warbler species came through with a total of 541 warblers. That averages out to 2.4 warbler species per day with 8.7 individual warblers per day. The most numerous species of warbler was of course the Tennessee with a total of 208. The least numerous were Black-throated Blue, Canada, Mourning and Orange-crowned with only one appearance for each. Below is the list of warbler species going from the most numerous to the least. Below that is the list of other migrants in the same order. Warblers Tennessee Warbler 208 Yellow-rumped Warbler 58 Yellow-throated Warbler 46 Black-throated Green Warbler 44 Magnolia Warbler 28 Chestnut-sided Warbler 24 (12m,12f) Cape May Warbler 21 Am. Redstart 16 (14m, 2f) Blackburnian Warbler 15 Palm Warbler 10 Worm-eating Warbler 10 Hooded Warbler 12 (10m, 2f) Black-and-white Warbler 9 Bay-breasted Warbler 7 (4f, 3f) Northern Parula 7 Blue-winged Warbler 5 Prairie Warbler 5 Common Yellowthroat 4 (m) Pine Warbler 3 Yellow Warbler 3 (f) Cerulean Warbler 2 (1m, 1f) Black-throated Blue Warbler 1(m) Canada Warbler 1 Mourning Warbler 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Other Migrants Am. Robin 266 Common Nighthawk 209 Scarlet Tanager 158 Chipping Sparrow 69 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 65 (f) Northern Flicker 62 Gray Catbird 52 Swainson?s Thrush 43 Blue Jay 37 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 34 (24m,10f) White-eyed Vireo 32 Red-eyed Vireos 29 Blue-gray Gnatcatchers 25 Broad-winged Hawk 24 Eastern Kingbird 24 Wood Thrush 24 Eastern Wood Pewee 20 Brown Thrasher 18 Baltimore Oriole 16 (m) Yellow-billed Cuckoo 14 Chimney Swift 11 Blue-headed Vireo 9 Cooper?s Hawk 9 Great-crested Flycatcher 9 Yellow-throated Vireo 7 Common Raven 5 Summer Tanager 5 Barn Swallow 4 Empidonax sp. ? 4 Veery 3 Ovenbird 2 Philadelphia Vireo 2 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Warbling Vireo 2 Cormorant sp ? 1 (probably a Double-crested) Gray-cheeked Thrush 1 Great Blue Heron 1 House Wren 1 Indigo Bunting 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Vireo sp. ?1 (possibly a Warbling) Vireo sp ? 1 (possibly a Philadelphia) Enjoy the birds, Roger Mayhorn Grundy, VA ************************************************* BRISTOL BIRDS NET LIST This is a regional birding list sponsored by the Bristol Bird Club to facilitate communications between birders and bird clubs of Southwest Virginia and Northeast Tennessee. It serves the Russell County Bird Club, Herndon Chapter TOS, Chapter, Blue Ridge Birders Club, Butternut Nature Club, Buchanan County Bird Club, Bristol Bird Club, Clinch Valley Bird Club and Cumberland Nature Club. -------------------------------------------------- You are subscribed to Bristol-Birds. To post to this mailing list, simply send an email to: bristol-birds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe, send an email to bristol-birds-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the one word 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. -------------------------------------------------- Wallace Coffey, Moderator jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx (423)764-3958