The 100th Nashville CBC took place December 20 and totaled 82 species, right about average. A whopping 50 birders took part, with 17 at Owls Hill alone. Thank you to all for such a remarkable turnout! And thank you to my co-compiler Scott Block, who enters the data for us, and to Susan Hollyday for providing a delicious compilation dinner. The numbers by route may be viewed at: http://ntosfield.blogspot.com/p/bird-count-results.html . Some interesting finds for our count: 2 Double-crested Cormorants at Poplar Creek route - have only occurred 8 times in 100 counts. 1 Bald Eagle at Poplar Creek - only occurred 11 times. 8 American Woodcock at Bells Bend Park - highest count ever and occurred only 16 times. 2 Eurasian Collared-Doves at West Meade - only occurred 4 times. 23,957 American Robins - 20,000 seen flying at dawn at Bells Bend Park. 6 Rusty Blackbirds - one at Bells Bend and 5 at Radnor Lake. 2 Purple Finches - at Poplar Creek route. 5 Pine Siskins - one at Bells Bend and 4 at Poplar Creek. Canada Goose - 133 Wood Duck - 1 Gadwall - 21 Am. Wigeon - 1 Am. Black Duck - 2 Mallard - 74 N. Shoveler - 8 Green-winged Teal - 7 Ring-necked Duck - 142 Lesser Scaup - 11 Bufflehead - 55 Ruddy Duck - 30 Wild Turkey - 37 Pied-billed Grebe - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 2 Great Blue Heron - 15 Black Vulture - 203 Turkey Vulture - 15 Bald Eagle - 1 immature No. Harrier - 2 Sharp-sh Hawk - 5 Cooper's Hawk - 8 Red-Sh. Hawk - 5 Red-tailed Hawk - 32 Killdeer - 35 Am Woodcock - 8 Ring-billed Gull - 1 Rock Pigeon - 241 Eur Col-Dove - 2 Mourning Dove - 106 E Screech-Owl - 5 Gr Horned Owl - 1 Barred Owl - 4 Belted Kingfisher - 16 Red-hd Woodpecker - 6 Red-bel Woodpecker - 91 Yel-Bel Sapsucker - 36 Downy Woodpecker - 74 Hairy Woodpecker - 5 No Flicker - 38 Pileated Woodpecker - 19 Am Kestrel - 12 E Phoebe - 13 Blue Jay - 255 Am Crow - 281 Carolina Chickadee - 294 Tufted Titmouse - 219 Wh-br Nuthatch - 84 Brown Creeper - 9 Winter Wren - 3 Carolina Wren - 201 Golden-cr Kinglet - 34 Ruby-cr Kinglet - 21 E Bluebird - 198 Hermit Thrush - 21 American Robin - 23957 No Mockingbird - 173 Brown Thrasher - 6 Euro Starling - 7035 Cedar Waxwing - 354 Yel-rumped Warbler - 31 Eastern Towhee - 73 Chipping Sparrow - 2 Field Sparrow - 118 Savannah Sparrow - 2 Fox Sparrow - 11 Song Sparrow - 121 Swamp Sparrow - 29 White-thr Sparrow - 305 White-cr Sparrow - 15 Dark-eyed Junco - 158 No Cardinal - 314 Red-wg Blackbird - 153 E Meadowlark - 31 Rusty Blackbird - 6 Com Grackle - 199 Brn-head Cowbird - 3 Purple Finch - 2 House Finch - 129 Pine Siskin - 5 Am Goldfinch - 127 House Sparrow - 8 - Total Birds - 36511 Total Species - 82 Scott Block and Jan Shaw co-compilers Nashville, TN