[TN-Bird] Bristol TN-VA CBC preliminary results
- From: "Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "TN-birds" <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 02:57:42 -0500
The Bristol TN-VA Christmas Bird Count found 83 species on Sunday, Dec. 30,
2007, which is
normal compared to the most recent 10-year-average of 82.9 species. The most
recent
20-year-average is 77.8 species. The count's record is 91 in 2004 which is the
region record high count.
Thirty birders in six parties may represent a new record turnout.
The Bristol CBC was first held in 1931.
The party high count was 59 species under the leadership of Rick Knight and
included Roy Kinspel, Joe McGuiness and Kim Stroud.
Richard Lewis compiled the count for his 27th consecutive year dating back to
1981.
Wallace Coffey participated in his 49th consecutive Bristol CBC.
Among the more interesting species were Kinght's party finding three Eared
Grebes at Musick's
Campground on S.H. Lake. This is the 10th Bristol CBC which has recorded this
species. In
addition, Rack Cross' party had three Snow Geese (two white morphs and one blue
morph) at
Clear Creek Lake along with a single Ross's Goose. There is one previous
record of the
Ross's for the count when one bird was found there in 2005. Cross' party also
had two
Black-crowned Night-Herons there, making the sixth year they have been found on
the count.
Larry McDaniel's party had the count's fourth Snow Goose. Richard Lewis and
Phillip Lewis
found an American Woodcock and a Northern Bobwhite. The last report of either
species
on this count was in 1998.
No new count species were reported this year. Seven species were
recorded in record high numbers: Wild Turkey (68), Great Blue Heron (34),
Cooper's Hawk (9),
Northern Flicker (50), Carolina Chickadee (174), Brown Creeper (8) and Northern
Cardinal (292).
No significant influx of northern finches were found.
Despite efforts by the USDA. to trap and kill Canada Geese in the count area,
a near record 859 birds were found. Almost 10 percent of the total was 81
birds at Middlebrook Lake.
Federal agents conducted an extensive effort to kill and relocated geese from
Middlebrook this
past summer.
Large roosts of Ring-billed Gulls at South Holston Lake and at Middlebrook Lake
near the Bristol Virginia Regional Landfill accounted for the 840 gulls.
Four species of "count week" (cw) birds are reported in the list below but are
not included in
the total of 83 species.
Here is the list for this year's count:
Snow Goose 4 (three at Clear Creek Lake)
Ross's Goose 1 (Clear Creek Lake)
Canada Goose 859
Mute Swan 2
Wood Duck cw
Green-winged Teal 12
American Black Duck cw
Mallard 613
Gadwall 62
American Wigeon 17
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck 57
Lesser Scaup 4
Common Goldeneye 1
Bufflehead 147
Hooded Merganser 265 (mostly Middlebrook Lake and Clear Creek Lake)
Ruffed Grouse 2
Wild Turkey 68
Northern Bobwhite 1
Common Loon 12
Pied-billed Grebe 27
Horned Grebe 12
Eared Grebe 3 (Musick's Campground S.H. Lake)
Great Blue Heron 34
Black-crowned Night-Heron 2 (Clear Creek Lake)
Black Vulture cw
Turkey Vulture 4
Bald Eagle 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 9
Red-shouldered Hawk 1
Red-tailed Hawk 26
American Kestrel 28
American Coot 22
Killdeer 55
Wilson's Snipe 5
American Woodcock 1
Ring-billed Gull 840
Herring Gull 2
Rock Pigeon 631
Mourning Dove 416
Eastern Screech Owl 11
Great Horned Owl 10
Belted Kingfisher 20
Red-bellied Woodpecker 29
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 11
Downy Woodpecker 43
Hairy Woodpecker 14
Northern Flicker 50
Pileated Woodpecker 25
Eastern Phoebe 15
Blue Jay 240
American Crow 1241
Common Raven 3
Carolina Chickadee 174
Tufted Titmouse 120
Red-breasted Nuthatch 4
White-breasted Nuthatch 60
Brown Creeper 8
Carolina Wren 110
Winter Wren 8
Golden-crowned Kinglet 88
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 10
Eastern Bluebird 103
Hermit Thrush 7
American Robin 2
Northern Mockingbird 122
Loggerhead Shrike 4
European Starling 1391
Yellow-rumped Warbler 73
Palm Warbler 1
Northern Cardinal 292
Eastern Towhee 41
Chipping Sparrow 6
Field Sparrow 31
Fox Sparrow 1
Song Sparrow 157
Swamp Sparrow 9
White-throated Sparrow 174
White-crowned Sparrow 117
Dark-eyed Junco 81
Eastern Meadowlark 2
Purple Finch cw
House Finch 73
Pine Siskin 4
American Goldfinch 243
House Sparrow 17
Total # species 83
Total # individuals 9495
Here is the list of species counted by parties:
59 species= Rick Knight, Roy Kinspel, Joe McGuiness, Kim Stroud
57 species= Wallace Coffey, Ellen Parker, Kevin Hamed, Michele Sparks, Andy
Jones, Charlie Parker, Chris O'Bryan
54 species= Ron Carrico, Rob Biller, Tom McNeil
53 species= Rack Cross, Carol Cross, Diane Draper, Don Holt, Todd Hare, Mary
Anne Wheat
52 species= Larry McDaniel, Tom Hunter, Ed Talbott, Janice Martin, Fred
Martin, Dave Worley, Ron Harrington, Randy Smith
45 species= Richard Lewis, Phillip Lewis
Let's go birding......
Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN
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