The Nickajack Lake CBC was held on Jan. 31, 2005. The most noticeable miss was Turkey Vulture. Highlights include: All of the owls that might be found. Over 10,000 Coots. A Loggerhead Shrike. A Orange-Crowned Warbler. Thanks to all who participated. Dave Spicer, compiler Ooltewah, TN Hamilton County 89 TOTAL SPECIES REPORTED 69 Canada Goose 109 Gadwall 31 American Black Duck 152 Mallard 4 American Green-winged Teal 23 Canvasback 211 Ring-necked Duck 10 Greater Scaup 172 Lesser Scaup 21 Bufflehead 4 Common Goldeneye 19 Hooded Merganser 1 Red-breasted Merganser 57 Ruddy Duck 20 Wild Turkey 3 Common Loon 185 Pied-billed Grebe 2 Horned Grebe 154 Double-crested Cormorant 46 Great Blue Heron (Blue form) 26 Black Vulture 7 Bald Eagle 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 14 Red-shouldered Hawk 15 Red-tailed Hawk 11 American Kestrel 10373 American Coot 11 Killdeer 2370 Ring-billed Gull 1 Herring Gull 75 Rock Pigeon 89 Mourning Dove 1 Barn Owl 4 Eastern Screech-Owl 7 Great Horned Owl 2 Barred Owl 11 Belted Kingfisher 13 Red-headed Woodpecker 58 Red-bellied Woodpecker 23 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 37 Downy Woodpecker 2 Hairy Woodpecker 37 Northern (Yellow-shafted) Flicker 29 Pileated Woodpecker 10 Eastern Phoebe 1 Loggerhead Shrike 80 Blue Jay 207 American Crow 111 Carolina Chickadee 76 Tufted Titmouse 24 White-breasted Nuthatch 3 Brown-headed Nuthatch 7 Brown Creeper 89 Carolina Wren 7 House Wren 10 Winter Wren 48 Golden-crowned Kinglet 50 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 143 Eastern Bluebird 22 Hermit Thrush 887 American Robin 37 Northern Mockingbird 11 Brown Thrasher 519 European Starling 363 Cedar Waxwing 1 Orange-crowned Warbler 121 Yellow-rumped (Myrtle) Warbler 5 Pine Warbler 51 Eastern Towhee 61 Chipping Sparrow 146 Field Sparrow 4 Vesper Sparrow 15 Savannah Sparrow 1 Fox Sparrow 140 Song Sparrow 71 Swamp Sparrow 152 White-throated Sparrow 15 White-crowned Sparrow 222 Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 72 Northern Cardinal 2093 Red-winged Blackbird 19 Eastern Meadowlark 76 Rusty Blackbird 338 Common Grackle 8 Purple Finch 11 House Finch 109 American Goldfinch 4 House Sparrow 20953 TOTAL INDIVIDUALS COUNTED =================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBER===================== The TN-Bird Net requires you to sign your messages with first and last name, city (town) and state abbreviation. You are also required to list the count 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 _____________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Topographical Maps located at http://topozone.com/find.asp _____________________________________________________________