[TN-Bird] Knox CBC results --- at last
- From: K Dean EDWARDS <kde@xxxxxxx>
- To: Tennessee Birds <tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 12:35:59 -0400 (EDT)
With one excuse or the other, I never got around to sending out a
full report on this year's Knoxville CBC. So here goes.
Dean Edwards
compiler, Knoxville CBC
The Knoxville CBC hits 100 species!!
The Knoxville Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, 5 January 2008.
We set a number of records including hitting 100 species for the first
time ever on this count. That accomplishment smashed the old record of
96 species set in 2004-2005. We also tied a record with 56 observers.
No new species were added to the count history but several good birds were
found including:
- 1 "Blue" Snow Goose,
- 2 Blue-winged Teal at different locations in Blount Co,
- an Osprey at Solway seen by 2 parties,
- a Merlin in Blount Co,
- a Dunlin at Lackey Creek in Louisville,
- 2 American Woodcock at Haw Ridge Park in Anderson Co.,
- Rufous Hummingbird at Susie Stout's feeder,
- a Fish Crow at Northshore Greenway,
- and a BLUE-GRAY GNATCATCHER by Patty Ford (and later photographed by
Lyn Bales) at the boat ramp on Alcoa Hwy across from Looney Island.
Record counts were tallied for Canada Goose, Hooded Merganser, Wild
Turkey, Great Blue Heron, Great Egret, Black Vulture, Bonaparte's
Gull, Eastern Phoebe, American Crow, White-breasted and Brown-headed
Nuthatches, Eastern Bluebird, and Fox Sparrow (with 8 of the 12 Fox
Sparrows found by Ed LeGrand at Haw Ridge Park). It has been a good
year for Red-breasted Nuthatches, and 20 were found on the count.
Twelve Purple Finches were the only winter finch to be reported.
The worst misses were Bufflehead, House Wren, and several species
that are declining in the area including Northern Bobwhite, Loggerhead
Shrike, Horned Lark, and Rusty Blackbird. Continuing the decline in
wintering blackbirds seen over the past several years (likely due to
development within the West Knoxville based circle), we missed Brown-
headed Cowbird and Common Grackle and only tallied 6 Red-winged Blackbirds.
These 3 species and Rusty Blackbird were often found in the thousands
or tens-of-thousands in the 1970s and 1980s but the last large count
was in 1993-1994 when roughly 30,000 each of red-wings and grackles
were reported.
Full details follow.
Knoxville Christmas Bird Count
Saturday, 5 January 2008
Weather:AM: Partly Cloudy
PM: Mostly Cloudy w/ light rain after 22:00
High Temperature: 50F
Low Temperature: 27F
Precipitation: light rain after 22:00
Winds: light
Notes: Shallow water frozen, deep water open, no snow cover
PARTY HOURS:
by foot 103.27
by car 39.87
by boat 1.00
other 1.00
TOTAL (CBC) 145.13
owling 10.45
feeder watching 19.25
GRAND TOTAL 174.83
PARTY MILES:
by foot 67.30
by car 632.40
by boat 1.50
other 2.00
TOTAL (CBC) 703.20
owling 72.95
GRAND TOTAL 776.15
Start-end times:
00:00-00:15
05:30-18:15
21:00-22:00
SPECIES
SWANS GEESE and DUCKS
Snow Goose 1 (blue morph)
Canada Goose 1178
Wood Duck 11
Gadwall 92
American Wigeon 13
American Black Duck 1
Mallard 435
Blue-winged Teal 2
Northern Shoveler 16
Northern Pintail --CW--
Green-winged Teal 1
Redhead 1
Ring-necked Duck 5
Lesser Scaup 5
Hooded Merganser 169
Ruddy Duck 1
PARTRIDGES GROUSE and TURKEYS
Wild Turkey 28
LOONS
Common Loon 1
GREBES
Pied-billed Grebe 54
Horned Grebe 10
CORMORANTS
Double-crested Cormorant 40
BITTERNS and HERONS
Great Blue Heron 216
Great Egret 4
Black-crowned Night-Heron 18
AMERICAN VULTURES
Black Vulture 114
Turkey Vulture 18
KITES HAWKS EAGLES and ALLIES
Osprey 1
Bald Eagle 2 (adult 1, immature 1)
Northern Harrier 1
Sharp-shinned Hawk 8
Cooper's Hawk 12
Red-shouldered Hawk 14
Red-tailed Hawk 47
Buteo sp. 2
CARACARAS and FALCONS
American Kestrel 8
Merlin 1
RAILS GALLINULES and COOTS
American Coot 171
CRANES
Sandhill Crane 5
PLOVERS and LAPWINGS
Killdeer 199
SANDPIPERS PHALAROPES and ALLIES
Dunlin 1
Wilson's Snipe 18
American Woodcock 2
SKUAS GULLS TERNS and SKIMMERS
Bonaparte's Gull 768
Ring-billed Gull 2098
PIGEONS and DOVES
Rock Pigeon 575
Mourning Dove 665
TYPICAL OWLS
Eastern Screech-Owl 5
Great Horned Owl 3
Barred Owl 2
HUMMINGBIRDS
Rufous Hummingbird 1
KINGFISHERS
Belted Kingfisher 59
WOODPECKERS and ALLIES
Red-headed Woodpecker 2
Red-bellied Woodpecker 143
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 49
Downy Woodpecker 109
Hairy Woodpecker 17
Northern Flicker 58
Pileated Woodpecker 16
TYRANT FLYCATCHERS
Eastern Phoebe 20
JAYS MAGPIES and CROWS
Blue Jay 494
American Crow 8630
Fish Crow 1
TITMICE and CHICKADEES
Carolina Chickadee 491
Tufted Titmouse 312
NUTHATCHES
Red-breasted Nuthatch 20
White-breasted Nuthatch 90
Brown-headed Nuthatch 19
CREEPERS
Brown Creeper 6
WRENS
Carolina Wren 260
Winter Wren 11
KINGLETS
Golden-crowned Kinglet 21
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 40
OLD WORLD WARBLERS and GNATCATCHERS
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1
THRUSHES
Eastern Bluebird 464
Hermit Thrush 18
American Robin 1413
MOCKINGBIRDS THRASHERS and ALLIES
Northern Mockingbird 315
Brown Thrasher 10
STARLINGS and ALLIES
European Starling 8105
WAGTAILS and PIPITS
American Pipit 73
WAXWINGS
Cedar Waxwing 184
WOOD-WARBLERS
Orange-crowned Warbler 1
Yellow-rumped "Myrtle" Warbler 331
Pine Warbler 2
Palm Warbler 12
NEW WORLD SPARROWS and ALLIES
Eastern Towhee 138
Chipping Sparrow 61
Field Sparrow 152
Savannah Sparrow 13
"Red" Fox Sparrow 12
Song Sparrow 440
Swamp Sparrow 59
White-throated Sparrow 629
White-crowned Sparrow 11
Dark-eyed Junco 157
CARDINALS BUNTINGS and GROSBEAKS
Northern Cardinal 689
BLACKBIRDS and ORIOLES
Red-winged Blackbird 6
Eastern Meadowlark 43
FINCHES
Purple Finch 12
House Finch 400
American Goldfinch 464
OLD WORLD SPARROWS
House Sparrow 78
Total species: 100 + 1 CW
Total individuals: 32204
Birds per party hour (CBC): 221.89
Birds per party hour (ALL): 184.198
OBSERVERS:
56 observers in 33 parties
(includes 13 feeder watchers in 9 fw parties)
Jean Alexander
Mary Ann Antonucci
Richard Antonucci
Mark Armstrong
Andy Avel
Lyn Bales
Robin Barrow
Deanna Busick
Mark Campen
Gail Clendenen
Steve Clendenen
Louise P. Conrad
Louise S. Conrad
Audrey Crawford
Linday Crawford
Marcia Davis
K. Dean Edwards (compiler)
Chuck Estes
Lola Estes
Linda Fippin
Patty Ford
Reid Gerhardt
Carole Gobert
Paul Hartigan
Deborah Hartman
Gary Hartman
Ron Hoff
Angela Hoffman
Tom Howe
Susan Hoyle
Jim Human
David Johnson
Tony King
Ed LeGrand
Ed Manous
Seth McConchie
Janet McKnight
Dollyann Myers
Charles P. Nicholson
Barbara Parrish
Josh Pihl
Joe Pyle
Jo Roy
Kelly Roy
Martha Rudolph
Michael Ryon
Frank Spilker
Susie Stout
Beth Summers
Fred Symonds
Allan Trently
David Trently
June Welch
Chris Welsh
Jack Williams
Corwin Witt
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