The Nashville Fall Count took place Saturday, Sept. 27 and produced only 108 species. This is the lowest total since we had 103 in 2004. Several usual species were missed, and not many wintering species had arrived yet. Thank you so much to all who participated, and to Scott Block, my co-compiler. The detailed report from each route can be found on the NTOS Blog with this link - http://ntosfield.blogspot.com/p/bird-count-results.html Canada Goose - 279 Wood Duck - 31 Mallard - 24 Blue-winged Teal - 8 Wild Turkey - 58 Pied-billed Grebe - 2 Double-crested Cormorant - 93 Great Blue Heron - 24 Great Egret - 11 Green Heron - 1 Black Vulture - 305 Turkey Vulture - 208 Osprey - 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1 Cooper's Hawk - 8 Accipiter Species - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 4 Broad-winged Hawk - 3 Red-tailed Hawk - 15 American Coot - 3 Killdeer - 47 Solitary Sandpiper - 2 Greater Yellowlegs - 1 Ring-billed Gull - 20 Caspian Tern - 3 Rock Pigeon - 60 Eurasian Collared-Dove - 7 Mourning Dove - 109 Yellow-billed Cuckoo - 2 Eastern Screech-Owl - 4 Barred Owl - 3 Common Nighthawk - 1 Chimney Swift - 314 Ruby-throated Hummingbird - 9 Belted Kingfisher - 24 Red-headed Woodpecker - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 80 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 62 Hairy Woodpecker - 13 Northern Flicker - 24 Pileated Woodpecker - 17 American Kestrel - 15 Eastern Wood-Pewee - 32 Acadian Flycatcher - 1 "Traill's" Flycatcher species - 1 Eastern Phoebe - 28 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher - 1 White-eyed Vireo - 24 Yellow-throated Vireo - 1 Philadelphia Vireo - 4 Red-eyed Vireo - 1 Blue Jay - 279 American Crow - 227 Barn Swallow - 1 Carolina Chickadee - 195 Tufted Titmouse - 100 White-breasted Nuthatch - 55 House Wren - 5 Carolina Wren - 156 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 95 Gray-cheeked Thrush - 2 Swainson's Thrush - 12 Wood Thrush - 2 American Robin - 265 Gray Catbird - 27 Northern Mockingbird - 106 Brown Thrasher - 35 European Starling - 604 Cedar Waxwing - 121 Ovenbird - 1 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Blue-winged Warbler - 1 Golden-winged Warbler - 2 Black-and-white Warbler - 3 Tennessee Warbler - 25 Nashville Warbler - 3 Common Yellowthroat - 23 American Redstart - 39 Northern Parula - 4 Magnolia Warbler - 84 Bay-breasted Warbler - 5 Chestnut-sided Warbler - 8 Palm Warbler - 5 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 1 Yellow-throated Warbler - 2 Black-throated Green Warbler - 16 Wilson's Warbler - 1 Yellow-breasted Chat - 1 Eastern Towhee - 51 Chipping Sparrow - 17 Field Sparrow - 66 Song Sparrow - 8 Summer Tanager - 25 Scarlet Tanager - 1 Northern Cardinal - 205 Rose-breasted Grosbeak - 36 Blue Grosbeak - 3 Indigo Bunting - 53 Red-winged Blackbird - 40 Eastern Meadowlark - 5 Common Grackle - 403 Brown-headed Cowbird - 1 Baltimore Oriole - 1 House Finch - 49 American Goldfinch - 138 House Sparrow - 36 Total Number of Species - 108 Total Number of Birds - 5650 Jan Shaw and Scott Block co-compilers Nashville, TN