Hickory - Priest CBC 1/1/2012 Nashville TN, mostly Davidson Co. See count numbers below for the 90 species found. As mentioned in earlier post on highlights, 1 Tundra Swan was best bird of the day. Other notables include 3 Bald Eagles, 3 Merlins, 1 each Sedge Wren, Gray Catbird, Orange-crowned Warbler, & Lincoln's Sparrow, and a high count on Chipping Sparrow (320+). Duck variety was good with 13 species found. White-breasted Nuthatch (1) has finally become a "regular" on this count. Notable misses include Wood Duck, Wild Turkey, Herring Gull, Great Horned Owl and Brown-headed Cowbird. Windy conditions may have kept average passerine numbers down. Richard Connors, Nashville Snow Goose 55 Canada Goose 852 Tundra Swan 1 Gadwall 104 American Wigeon 1 American Black Duck 1 Mallard 497 Northern Shoveler 39 Northern Pintail 4 Green-winged Teal 7 Redhead 2 Ring-necked Duck 63 Lesser Scaup 6 Bufflehead 69 Common Goldeneye 9 Hooded Merganser 79 Ruddy Duck 57 Common Loon 146 Pied-billed Grebe 293 Horned Grebe 287 Great Blue Heron 59 Black-crowned Night-Heron 16 Black Vulture 299 Turkey Vulture 24 Bald Eagle 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk 7 Cooper's Hawk 8 Accipiter sp. 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 8 Red-tailed Hawk 25 American Kestrel 12 Merlin 3 American Coot 674 Killdeer 31 Wilson's Snipe 4 American Woodcock 13 Bonaparte's Gull 61 Ring-billed Gull 4,303 Rock Pigeon 545 Mourning Dove 223 Eastern Screech-Owl 12 Barred Owl 3 Belted Kingfisher 11 Red-bellied Woodpecker 20 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 12 Downy Woodpecker 35 Hairy Woodpecker 5 Northern Flicker 73 Pileated Woodpecker 7 Eastern Phoebe 2 Blue Jay 30 American Crow 562 Carolina Chickadee 89 Tufted Titmouse 38 White-breasted Nuthatch 1 Brown Creeper 31 Carolina Wren 38 Winter Wren 1 Sedge Wern 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 28 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 13 Eastern Bluebird 97 Hermit Thrush 14 American Robin 2,641 Gray Catbird 1 Northern Mockingbird 72 Brown Thrasher 3 European Starling 7,644 Cedar Waxwing 20 Orange-crowned Warbler 1 Yellow-rumped Warbler 41 Eastern Towhee 14 Chipping Sparrow 322 Field Sparrow 48 Savannah Sparrow 25 Fox Sparrow 8 Song Sparrow 34 Lincoln's Sparrow 1 Swamp Sparrow 62 White-throated Sparrow 196 White-crowned Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 49 Northern Cardinal 114 Red-winged Blackbird 32 Eastern Meadowlark 11 Rusty Blackbird 64 Common Grackle 30 Purple Finch 1 House Finch 79 American Goldfinch 29 House Sparrow 74