The Nashville Spring Count was held on May 9, and in spite of heavy rain in the morning we totaled 161 species, 2 short of last year's totoal, but better than our average for the last 10 years.?Some of the highlights were 3 Red-breasted Mergansers and 3 Common Terns at Percy Priest Lake, 3 Snowy Egrets, 1 Little Blue Heron, and a Laughing Gull at Gallatin Steam Plant, 2 Mississippi Kites and a Sora at Cheatham Co., 5 Bald Eagles in 3 spots, 1 Northern Harrier, 2 Olive-sided Flycatchers, and 1 Black-throated Blue Warbler at Radnor Lake, another Sora and an Alder Flycatcher?at Shelby Bottoms, 20 Willets and 1 Bonaparte's Gull at Old HIckory Lake, 1 Sedge Wren,?2 Savannah Sparrows, 1 Lincoln's, 2 Swamp, and 2 Henslow's at Bells Bend Park, 9? Bobolinks in Williamson Co., and 3 Pine Siskins at feeders.? Thank you to all who participated.? Canada goose 119 wood duck 15 mallard 40 blue-winged teal 3 northern shoveler 3 red-breasted merganser 3 wild turkey 61 northern bobwhite 17 common loon 12 pied-biled grebe 1 double-crested cormorant 202 great blue heron 316 great egret 19 snowy egret 3 little blue heron 1 green heron 10 black-crowned night-heron 120 yellow-crowned night-heron 1 black vulture 152 turkey vulture 39 osprey 5 Mississippi kite 2 bald eagle 5 northern harrier 1 sharp-shinned hawk 2 Cooper's hawk 4 accipiter sp, 1 red-shouldered hawk 6 broad-winged hawk? 3 red-tailed hawk 14 American kestrel 9 sora 2 American coot 7 killdeer 27 lesser yellowlegs 20 solitary sandpiper 16 willet 20 spotted sandpiper 8 semipalmated sandpiper 2 least sandpiper 50 Bonaparte's gull 1 ring-billed gull 41 laughing gull 1 caspian tern 6 common tern 3 Forster's tern 5 rock pigeon 15 European collared-dove 1 mourning dove 113 yellow-billed cuckoo 12 barred owl 7 common night-hawk 9 whip-poor-will 1 chimney swift 103 ruby-throated hummingbird 16 belted kingfisher 13 red-headed woodpecker 2 red-bellied woodpecker 36 downy woodpecker 21 hairy woodpecker 4 northern flicker 8 pileated woodpecker 10 olive-sided flycatcher 2 eastern wood-pewee 64 Acadian flycatcher 14 least flycatcher 2 alder flycatcher 1 eastern phoebe 53 great crested flycatcher 30 eastern kingbird 65 white-eyed vireo 42 yellow-throated vireo blue-headed vireo 1 warbling vireo 19 Philadelphia vireo 4 red-eyed vireo 101 blue jay 58 American crow 83 purple martin 47 tree swallow 66 northern rough-winged swallow 85 cliff swallow 398 barn swallow 166 Carolina chickadee 109 tufted titmouse 60 white-breasted nuthatch 12 Carolina wren 101 house wren 5 sedge wren 1 blue-gray gnatcatcher 81 eastern bluebird 103 veery 5 gray-cheeked thrush 3 Swainson's thrush 46 wood thrush 21 American robin 192 gray catbird 13 northern mockingbird 80 brown thrasher 21 European starling 597 cedar waxwing 317 blue-winged warbler 4 Tennessee warbler 40 Nashville warbler 4 northern parula 21 yellow warbler 10 chestnut-sided warbler 9 magnolia warbler 20 Cape May warbler 3 black-throated blue warbler 1 yellow-rumped warbler 5 black-throated green 10 blackburnian warbler 4 yelow-throated warbler 12 pine warbler 6 prairie warbler 42 palm warbler 19 bay-breasted warbler 13 blackpoll warbler 13 cerulean warbler 2 black-and-white warbler 8 American redstart 7 prothonotary warbler 18 worm-eating warbler 4 ovenbird 4 northern waterthrush 3 Louisiana waterthrush 9 Kentucky warbler 22 mourning warbler 2 common yellowthroat 56 hooded warbler 9 Wilson's warbler 3 Canada warbler 13 yellow-breasted chat 35 summer tanager 46 scarlet tanager 38 eastern towhee 61 chipping sparrow 17 field sparrow 109 savannah sparrow 3 song sparrow 8 Lincoln's sparrow 1 swamp sparrow 3 white-crowned sparrow 1 white-throated sparrow 5 Henslow's sparrow 2 northern cardinal 169 rose-breasted grosbeak 16 blue grosbeak 10 indigo bunting 163 dickcissel 10 bobolink 9 red-winged blackbird 250 eastern meadowlark 65 common grackle 203 brown-headed cowbird 102 orchard oriole 36 Baltimore oriole 7 house finch 24 pine siskin 3 American goldfinch 85 house sparrow 54 Jan Shaw, compiler 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. 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