The 69th consecutive Elizabethton spring count was held on Saturday, 28 April 2012. Thirty-five observers in 7 parties found 157 species. This is above the average of 146 spp. recorded over the last 30 years. The all-time high was 161 spp. in 2005. 28 species of warblers were reported. Warblers breeding locally occurred in good numbers, but purely transient species were scarce. The list: Canada Goose - 259 Wood Duck - 28 Mallard - 103 Blue-wg. Teal - 48 Ring-nk. Duck - 2 Bufflehead - 1 Red-br. Merganser - 2 N. Bobwhite - 2 Ruffed Grouse - 8 Wild Turkey - 40 Com. Loon - 14 Pied-billed Grebe - 7 Horned Grebe - 3 Dbl-cr. Cormorant - 18 Great Blue Heron - 20 Green Heron - 9 Yellow-cr. Night-Heron - 2 Black Vulture - 35 Turkey Vulture - 173 Osprey - 13 Bald Eagle - 4 N. Harrier - 1 Sharp-sh. Hawk - 2 Cooper's Hawk - 6 Red-shld. Hawk - 2 Broad-wg. Hawk - 20 Red-tailed Hawk - 26 Am. Kestrel - 6 Sora - 2 Am. Coot - 1 Killdeer - 37 Spotted Sandpiper - 22 Solitary Sandpiper - 34 Gr. Yellowlegs - 1 Lsr. Yellowlegs - 14 Least Sandpiper - 4 Pectoral Sandpiper - 2 Wilson's Snipe - 2 Am. Woodcock - 3 Ring-billed Gull - 4 Forster's Tern - 8 Rock Pigeon - 148 Eur. Collared-Dove - 4 Mourning Dove - 202 E. Screech-Owl - 6 Gr. Horned Owl - 2 Barred Owl - 8 N. Saw-whet Owl - 3 Chuck-will's-widow - 5 E. Whip-poor-will - 44 Chimney Swift - 180 Ruby-thr. Hummingbird - 20 Belted Kingfisher - 12 Red-headed Woodpecker - 5 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 55 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 3 Downy Woodpecker - 29 Hairy Woodpecker - 16 N. Flicker - 28 Pileated Woodpecker - 44 E. Wood-Pewee - 3 Acadian Flycatcher - 6 Least Flycatcher - 8 E. Phoebe - 84 Gr. Crested Flycatcher - 7 E. Kingbird - 70 Loggerhead Shrike - 3 White-eyed Vireo - 11 Yellow-thr. Vireo - 4 Blue-hd. Vireo - 114 Warbling Vireo - 3 Red-eyed Vireo - 220 Blue Jay - 185 Am. Crow - 264 Com. Raven - 9 Horned Lark - 1 Purple Martin - 76 Tree Swallow - 217 N. Rough-wg. Swallow - 116 Cliff Swallow - 867 Barn Swallow - 254 Carolina Chickadee - 130 Tufted Titmouse - 104 Red-br. Nuthatch - 18 White-br. Nuthatch - 21 Brown Creeper - 4 Carolina Wren - 121 House Wren - 70 Winter Wren - 13 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 77 Golden-cr. Kinglet - 10 Ruby-cr. Kinglet - 6 E. Bluebird - 209 Veery - 2 Hermit Thrush - 4 Wood Thrush - 112 Am. Robin - 1146 Gray Catbird - 23 N. Mockingbird - 199 Brown Thrasher - 58 Eur. Starling - 836 Cedar Waxwing - 108 Ovenbird - 206 Worm-eating Warbler - 24 La. Waterthrush - 17 Golden-wg. Warbler - 7 Black-and-white Warbler - 100 Prothonotary Warbler - 1 Swainson's Warbler - 7 Tennessee Warbler - 1 Nashville Warbler - 1 Kentucky Warbler - 2 Com. Yellowthroat - 33 Hooded Warbler - 233 Am. Redstart - 9 Cape May Warbler - 2 N. Parula - 31 Bay-br. Warbler - 1 Blackburnian Warbler - 26 Yellow Warbler - 19 Chestnut-sd. Warbler - 53 Black-thr. Blue Warbler - 114 Palm Warbler - 2 Pine Warbler - 9 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 28 Yellow-thr. Warbler - 34 Prairie Warbler - 6 Black-thr. Green Warbler - 110 Canada Warbler - 59 Yellow-br. Chat - 7 E. Towhee - 184 Chipping Sparrow - 96 Field Sparrow - 77 Savannah Sparrow - 12 Grasshopper Sparrow - 3 Song Sparrow - 241 Swamp Sparrow - 1 White-thr. Sparrow - 22 White-crn. Sparrow - 13 Dark-eyed Junco - 117 Scarlet Tanager - 68 N. Cardinal - 187 Rose-br. Grosbeak - 24 Blue Grosbeak - 1 Indigo Bunting - 89 Bobolink - 4 Red-wg. Blackbird - 535 E. Meadowlark - 205 Com. Grackle - 319 Brown-hd. Cowbird - 83 Orchard Oriole - 30 Baltimore Oriole - 11 House Finch - 52 Red Crossbill - 2 Pine Siskin - 21 Am. Goldfinch - 226 House Sparrow - 139 ______________________ 157 species ############################# Rick Knight Johnson City, TN