[TN-Bird] hermit thrush numbers on tn CBCs (2008-2009 season a good one)
- From: Stephen Stedman <SStedman@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:29:43 -0600
The soft mast crop in Tennessee has been good to excellent at most sites
I have visited this winter, and many of the frugivorous bird species are
present in good to excellent numbers as a result, with the Hermit Thrush
(HETH) being a case in point. I include below a table showing the
all-time high total of HETHs recorded on each of 45 Tennessee CBCs, 30
of which are currently active (note: six other TN CBCs not listed below
have no HETH data at all). The all-time high count of HETHs achieved on
a CBC in TN as of the 108th CBC (2007-2008) was 69, counted on the
Nickajack CBC in 1995. The totals below reflect CBC data that have been
posted to Audubon's CBC website and may have been exceeded in a few
cases by totals from counts with historical data that have not yet
posted to that central database. Accessing such missing data is
time-consuming at best, and I have not made that attempt in order to
provide this information.
This year's CBC season has seen the record HETH total on a TN CBC
considerably eclipsed, with 105 being counted on the White County CBC
(and possibly with even higher totals waiting to be posted to the CBC
website from one or more of the 13 counts whose data for this past
season have not yet been posted to the website), a testament to the fine
soft mast crop out there this winter.
Steve Stedman
Cookeville, TN
Count Name
Date
HETH High Count
Ashland City
12/21/1975
12
Bristol
01/01/2006
18
Buffalo River
12/26/2005
35
Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mt. N.P.
12/22/1935
28
Chattanooga
12/17/2005
50
Chickasaw Forest
12/25/1941
14
Clarksville
01/02/1988
11
Clay County
12/22/1999
40
Columbia
12/29/1995
24
Cookeville
12/15/2001
21
Copperhill
12/24/1915
1
Cross Creeks N.W.R.
12/16/1989
27
Crossville
12/23/2006
6
DeKalb County
12/30/2003
52
Dresden
01/03/1987
3 (tie)
Dresden
12/28/1990
3 (tie)
Duck River Reservoir
12/16/1989
33
Elizabethton
12/19/1993
13 (tie)
Elizabethton
12/16/1995
13 (tie)
Erin
12/26/1946
1
Fayette County
12/30/2000
28
Franklin-Coffee County
12/14/2006
5
Great Smoky Mountains N.P.
12/20/1942
29 (tie)
Great Smoky Mountains N.P.
12/26/1955
29 (tie)
Greeneville
12/20/1938
2
Henderson
12/31/1945
3 (tie)
Henderson
12/21/1946
3 (tie)
Hickory-Priest
01/01/1998
15
Hiwassee
01/01/1996
60
Humboldt
12/24/1939
1
Jackson
12/31/1994
17
Johnson City
12/28/1941
6
Kingsport
12/20/1980
6
Knoxville
12/31/2000
30
Lebanon
12/20/1980
3
Memphis
12/24/1939
66
Nashville
12/20/1997
34
Nickajack Lake
12/30/1995
69
Norris
12/17/2005
23
Paris
12/25/1933
1
Reelfoot Lake
12/20/1975
54
Roan Mountain
12/23/1986
5
Savannah
12/30/1995
33
Shady Valley-Mountain City
01/01/2007
6
Shiloh N.P.
12/24/1933
3
Spence Field Bald
12/21/1936
3
Tazewell
12/28/1914
3
Warren County
12/30/2005
9
White County
12/22/2005
41
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