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UTPSF marsh was frozen over which is not typical. Also prior to that we had the
incredible drought which probably played a roll in no Sora/Virginia rail. We
also had crow hunters blasting shotguns & loudly playing Crow/Great Horned Owl
calls from the bank of the farm. We missed Pine Warbler which is almost a
guarantee at that location. We only had one or two species of duck. Really slow
day overall
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On Thursday, January 12, 2017, 10:23 AM, kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
<kde@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
The Knoxville CBC was held on Sat, 31 Dec 2016. I'm still compiling
individual totals but, unless I've miscounted, the species total is 98
plus 6 additional count-week species. This total is in-line with recent
trends matching our 10-year average of 97.6.
Participation was excellent as always, and I want to thank all that helped
with the count. Weather could have been better with mixed precipitation
throughout the day. Many parties reported seemingly low numbers of birds.
Some highlights...
- Greater Scaup (this has been a good year for them on Ft Loudoun Lake)
- Osprey at semi-regular wintering spot on Melton Hill Lake in Solway
- Merlin, 2
- Rufous Hummingbird
- all 7 woodpeckers
- Fish Crow and Brown-headed Nuthatch continue to increase in number and
both will likely set new record high counts (definitely Fish Crow)
- 4 warbler species including 2 Orange-crowned Warblers coming to suet
feeders (ties record high count for OCWA set last year)
Several good count-week birds which could not be found on count day or
showed up the next couple of days:
- ROSS'S GOOSE, first time on this count though we have had a few near misses
- Common Goldeneye
- Greater Yellowlegs
- Dunlin, the well-reported bird that showed up at UT Cherokee Farm a
couple days after the count
Some misses:
- Lesser Scaup and Barred Owl were CW only
- Ruddy Duck
- N Harrier
- Am Woodcock, weather did not cooperate for displaying
- Loggerhead Shrike, 4th year to miss this species at what had been the
last known spot for it in the count area
- Am Pipit, shocking miss (only 3rd miss in last 20 years) perhaps related
to the drought as the fields at UTPSF were reported to be dry and bare
- Pine Siskin
Also worthy of note is an Ovenbird that has been visiting a yard in
Knoxville which lies just 1 mile outside of the count area.
Dean Edwards
Knoxville, TN
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