12-16-06 Nashville area CBC You know what they say, "bad weather, good birds". Unfortunately, the opposite holds true as well. Yesterday was a fabulous, balmy day for birders of the Nashville CBC, but unfortunately, a poor day for birds. We had a total of 71 species, compared to 83 last year, and the lowest showing since 1996 when 70 species were tallied. Highlights were 1 Purple Finch at Warner Park, Count Week Rusty Blackbird at Radnor Lake, 5 Brewer's Blackbirds at Owls Hill, and a Count Week immature male Baltimore Oriole, also at Owls Hill. Duck species were low, and we had no Bald Eagles. Thank you so much to all who participated, and to Mary Zimmerman for hosting the compilation and Jon Mann for recording the numbers. Canada Goose 185 American Black Duck 6 Mallard 49 Gadwall 240 American Wigeon 6 Ring-necked Duck 92 Hooded Merganser 1 Wild Turkey 18 Pied-billed Grebe 3 Great Blue Heron 21 Black Vulture 78 Turkey Vulture 39 Northern Harrier 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper's Hawk 14 Red-shouldered Hawk 5 Red-tailed Hawk 63 American Kestrel 29 Killdeer 43 Ring-billed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 386 Mourning Dove 304 Eastern Screech-Owl 2 Great Horned Owl 3 Barred Owl 4 Belted Kingfisher 16 Red-bellied Woodpecker 120 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 37 Downy Woodpecker 109 Hairy Woodpecker 21 Northern Flicker 63 Pileated Woodpecker 23 Eastern Phoebe 12 Blue Jay 410 American Crow 596 Carolina Chickadee 600 Tufted Titmouse 289 White-breasted Nuthatch 74 Brown Creeper 23 Carolina Wren 217 Winter Wren 8 Golden-crowned Kinglet 54 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 14 Eastern Bluebird 300 Hermit Thrush 24 American Robin 1620 Northern Mockingbird 129 Brown Thrasher 10 European Starling 1095 Cedar Waxwing 90 Yellow-rumped Warbler 23 Eastern Towhee 142 Chipping Sparrow 17 Field Sparrow 117 Savannah Sparrow 9 Fox Sparrow 9 Song Sparrow 230 Swamp Sparrow 36 White-crowned Sparrow 27 White-throated Sparrow 676 Dark-eyed Junco 187 Northern Cardinal 531 Red-winged Blackbird 130 Eastern Meadowlark 31 Brewer's Blackbird 5 Common Grackle 154 Brown-headed Cowbird 8 Purple Finch 1 House Finch 128 American Goldfinch 222 House Sparrow 52 Total Individuals 10,286 Count Week: Northern Pintail 2 Lesser Scaup 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Rusty Blackbird Jan Shaw Nashville, TN =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to SIGN YOUR MESSAGE with first and last name, CITY (TOWN) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the COUNTY in which the birds you report were seen. The actual DATE OF OBSERVATION should appear in the first paragraph. _____________________________________________________________ To post to this mailing list, simply send email to: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx _____________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to: tn-bird-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject field. ______________________________________________________________ TN-Bird Net is owned by the Tennessee Ornithological Society Neither the society(TOS) nor its moderator(s) endorse the views or opinions expressed by the members of this discussion group. Moderator: Wallace Coffey, Bristol, TN wallace@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx ------------------------------ Assistant Moderator Andy Jones Cleveland, OH ------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Dave Worley Rosedale, VA __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ EXCELLENT MAP RESOURCES Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________