I now have all the party data for the Savannah CBC (December 29, 2010). We tallied 109 species, 20,122 individuals, with two additional species Count Week. Seven parties of 16 observers, plus one feeder watcher recorded 72.75 party hours and 316.8 party miles. Thanks to those who helped this year and another invitation to all others for next year. Canada Goose 127 Wood Duck 39 (second highest ever) Gadwall 60 (second highest ever...a count that usually struggles for puddle ducks!) American Wigeon 6 (record high) Eurasian Wigeon 1 (new species) Mallard 128 Northern Shoveler 256 (record high..thanks to the sewage ponds) Blue-winged Teal 1 (second ever) Green-winged Teal 10 Canvasback 1 Redhead 6 Ring-necked Duck 620 (record high...thanks again sewage ponds) Greater Scaup 1 Lesser Scaup 685 (another record...sewage ponds) Long-tailed Duck count week Bufflehead 48 (another record...sewage ponds) Common Goldeneye 19 Hooded Merganser 2 duck sp. 7 Wild Turkey 31 Common Loon 5 Pied-billed Grebe 228 Horned Grebe 22 Double-crested Cormorant 1 Great Blue Heron 69 Black Vulture 26 Turkey Vulture 38 Bald Eagle 3 (2 adult, 1 immature) Northern Harrier 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk 4 Cooper's Hawk 4 Red-shouldered Hawk 22 (second highest ever) Red-tailed Hawk 23 American Kestrel 10 Merlin 2 Virginia Rail 1 American Coot 179 Killdeer 47 Wilson's Snipe 8 American Woodcock 2 Bonaparte's Gull 30 Ring-billed Gull 735 Herring Gull 8 Thayer's Gull count week Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 162 Eurasian Collared-Dove 14 Mourning Dove 270 Eastern Screech Owl 2 Great Horned Owl 3 Barred Owl 6 Short-eared Owl 3 Belted Kingfisher 10 Red-headed Woodpecker 38 Red-bellied Woodpecker 98 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 24 Downy Woodpecker 39 Hairy Woodpecker 8 Northern Flicker 58 Pileated Woodpecker 21 Eastern Phoebe 17 Blue Jay 239 American Crow 413 Fish Crow 2 Horned Lark 223 Carolina Chickadee 110 Tufted Titmouse 98 Red-breasted Nuthatch 9 White-breasted Nuthatch 23 Brown-headed Nuthatch 6 Brown Creeper 16 Carolina Wren 131 Winter Wren 21 (record high) Marsh Wren 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet 48 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 35 Eastern Bluebird 223 Hermit Thrush 29 American Robin 4691 Northern Mockingbird 65 Brown Thrasher 28 (record high) European Starling 413 Cedar Waxwing 562 (second highest ever) Yellow-rumped Warbler 114 Pine Warbler 45 (record high) Palm Warbler 2 Eastern Towhee 113 (record high) Chipping Sparrow (second highest ever) Field Sparrow 141 Vesper Sparrow 2 Savannah Sparrow 152 LeConte's Sparrow 4 Fox Sparrow 24 Song Sparrow 184 Swamp Sparrow 109 White-throated Sparrow 562 White-crowned Sparrow 5 Dark-eyed Junco 262 Lapland Longspur 3 Northern Cardinal 293 Red-winged Blackbird 595 Eastern Meadowlark 252 Rusty Blackbird 1369 (record high) Brewer's Blackbird 1 Common Grackle 3014 Brown-headed Cowbird 133 Purple Finch 10 House Finch 46 Pine Siskin 11 American Goldfinch 101 House Sparrow 67 Damien Simbeck Compiler Killen, AL =================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 -------------------------------- Assistant Moderator Chris O'Bryan Clarksville, TN __________________________________________________________ Visit the Tennessee Ornithological Society web site at http://www.tnbirds.org * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ARCHIVES TN-Bird Net Archives at //www.freelists.org/archives/tn-bird/ MAP RESOURCES Tenn.Counties Map at http://www.lib.utexas.edu/maps/states/tennessee3.gif Aerial photos to complement google maps http://local.live.com _____________________________________________________________