The Knox County Fall Count will be held Sunday, 30 Sept 2012. Please contact me if you would like to participate. Regular counters, please also contact me to confirm whether or not you will be able to count. Announcement from the KTOS newsletter is copied below as is the results from the Knox County SPRING Count that I never posted online (and only recently finished compiling). I haven't adapted my compilation form for recent taxonomy changes so sorry for the old order. Dean Edwards Knoxville, TN ------------------------------------------------------------- Knox County Fall Count Sunday, 30 Sept 2012 The annual Knox County Fall Bird Count will be held on Sunday, 30 September 2012. Everyone is encouraged to participate by joining a group in the field or counting birds in your own backyard and neighborhood (for those living in Knox County). For more information on how you can participate, if you would like to join a group, or would like some suggestions on places to count, please contact the compiler, Dean Edwards (see below for contact information). It is also very important to contact the compiler if you normally work the count but are unable to do so this year so that we can get someone else to cover your territory. Please submit your count results to the compiler as soon as possible. There are no fees for participating in this count. Please note, your results should include all of the following: - a checklist including the tally for each species identified - names of all participants with contact information for at least one person - location(s) you counted - time of day you counted - number of hours spent counting by foot, by car, and/or by boat plus hours spent feeder/backyard watching and owling - number of miles covered while counting by foot, by car and/or by boat and miles covered while owling - documentation including written details and photos (if possible) of any rare species. Compiler contact information: Dean Edwards kde@xxxxxxx 1615 Meadow Chase Ln, Knoxville TN 37931 (C) 865-660-9701, (H) 865-560-9701 ------------------------------------------------------------ Knox County Spring Count Sunday, 29 April 2012 Notes: - Limited effort in urban areas leading to lower than normal numbers of common species (starling, Rock Pigeon, etc) - Brown-headed Nuthatch continue to prosper with essentially the same number of reports as for White-breasted Nuthatch - 25 warbler species plus 3 during count week Highlights: Scaup sp. Norhtern Bobwhite Sora Caspian and Forster's Terns Horned Lark Dark-eyed Junco (late) Bobolink Misses: Broad-winged Hawk Eurasian Collared-Dove Barred Owl Common Nighthawk Bank Swallow Nashville and Cananda Warblers Palm, Blue-winged, and Tennessee Warbler (all CW only) Weather: Mostly sunny High Temperature: 84 F Low Temperature: 59 F Precipitation: 0 Winds: 0-10 mph W PARTY: 31 observers in 15-19 parties PARTY HOURS: by foot 65.20 by car 14.22 owling 1.00 feeder watching 16.75 GRAND TOTAL 95.17 PARTY MILES: by foot 49.65 by car 179.65 owling 0.00 GRAND TOTAL 229.30 Start Time: 5:30 End Time: 20:00 SPECIES SWANS GEESE and DUCKS Canada Goose 122 Wood Duck 38 Gadwall 1 Mallard 44 Blue-winged Teal 14 scaup sp. 1 PARTRIDGES GROUSE and TURKEYS Wild Turkey 5 QUAIL Northern Bobwhite 5 CORMORANTS Double-crested Cormorant 21 BITTERNS and HERONS Great Blue Heron 69 Great Egret CW Green Heron 9 Black-crowned Night-Heron 3 AMERICAN VULTURES Black Vulture 10 Turkey Vulture 31 KITES HAWKS EAGLES and ALLIES Osprey 16 Bald Eagle 3 Sharp-shinned Hawk CW Cooper's Hawk 3 Red-shouldered Hawk 6 Red-tailed Hawk 13 CARACARAS and FALCONS American Kestrel 2 RAILS GALLINULES and COOTS Sora 1 American Coot 1 PLOVERS and LAPWINGS Killdeer 31 SANDPIPERS PHALAROPES and ALLIES Solitary Sandpiper 22 Spotted Sandpiper 15 Least Sandpiper 5 SKUAS GULLS TERNS and SKIMMERS Caspian Tern 2 Forster's Tern 4 PIGEONS and DOVES Rock Pigeon 29 Mourning Dove 188 CUCKOOS ROADRUNNERS and ANIS Yellow-billed Cuckoo 3 TYPICAL OWLS Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Great Horned Owl 2 GOATSUCKERS Chuck-will's-widow 1 SWIFTS Chimney Swift 50 HUMMINGBIRDS Ruby-throated Hummingbird 3 KINGFISHERS Belted Kingfisher 11 WOODPECKERS and ALLIES Red-bellied Woodpecker 84 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 Downy Woodpecker 26 Hairy Woodpecker 7 Northern Flicker 20 Pileated Woodpecker 5 TYRANT FLYCATCHERS Eastern Wood-Pewee 9 Empidonax sp. 3 Eastern Phoebe 33 Great Crested Flycatcher 14 Eastern Kingbird 38 VIREOS White-eyed Vireo 15 Yellow-throated Vireo 2 Blue-headed Vireo 2 Warbling Vireo 3 Red-eyed Vireo 63 JAYS MAGPIES and CROWS Blue Jay 152 American Crow 142 LARKS Horned Lark 1 SWALLOWS Purple Martin 22 Tree Swallow 36 Northern Rough-winged Swallow 41 Cliff Swallow 151 Barn Swallow 129 TITMICE and CHICKADEES Carolina Chickadee 108 Tufted Titmouse 106 NUTHATCHES White-breasted Nuthatch 14 Brown-headed Nuthatch 13 WRENS Carolina Wren 167 House Wren 9 KINGLETS Ruby-crowned Kinglet 3 OLD WORLD WARBLERS and GNATCATCHERS Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 29 THRUSHES Eastern Bluebird 132 Veery CW Swainson's Thrush 2 Wood Thrush 29 American Robin 295 MOCKINGBIRDS THRASHERS and ALLIES Gray Catbird 14 Northern Mockingbird 190 Brown Thrasher 65 STARLINGS and ALLIES European Starling 285 WAXWINGS Cedar Waxwing 228 WOOD-WARBLERS Blue-winged Warbler CW Tennessee Warbler CW Northern Parula 8 Yellow Warbler 12 Chestnut-sided Warbler 3 Magnolia Warbler 3 Cape May Warbler 6 Yellow-rumped Warbler 51 Black-throated Green Warbler 13 Blackburnian Warbler 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 2 Pine Warbler 7 Prairie Warbler 1 Palm Warbler CW Bay-breasted Warbler 2 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Cerulean Warbler 3 Black-and-white Warbler 6 American Redstart 1 Prothonotary Warbler 2 Worm-eating Warbler 6 Ovenbird 8 Northern Waterthrush 3 Louisiana Waterthrush 4 Kentucky Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 79 Hooded Warbler 15 Yellow-breasted Chat 20 TANAGERS Summer Tanager 11 Scarlet Tanager 27 NEW WORLD SPARROWS and ALLIES Eastern Towhee 136 Chipping Sparrow 23 Field Sparrow 72 Savannah Sparrow 15 Song Sparrow 141 Swamp Sparrow 1 White-throated Sparrow 18 Dark-eyed Junco 1 CARDINALS BUNTINGS and GROSBEAKS Northern Cardinal 286 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 12 Blue Grosbeak 13 Indigo Bunting 113 BLACKBIRDS and ORIOLES Bobolink 2 Red-winged Blackbird 181 Eastern Meadowlark 51 Common Grackle 197 Brown-headed Cowbird 88 Orchard Oriole 36 Baltimore Oriole 8 FINCHES House Finch 85 American Goldfinch 94 OLD WORLD SPARROWS House Sparrow 43 Total species: 127 + 6 CW Total individuals: 5386.00 Birds per party hour (CBC): 67.82 Birds per party hour (ALL): 56.60 OBSERVERS: Jean Alexander Robin Barrow Frank Bills Sharon Bostick Kevin Burke Howard Chitwood Gail Clendenen Steve Clendenen K. 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