The Nashville Fall Count was held on October 3 and totaled 111 species, 10 lower than last year, in part due to the strong winds and sunny skies all day. Some birds of interest included 98 Wild Turkeys, 4 Cattle Egrets near Bells Bend Park, 4 Osprey, 1 Bald Eagle seen from Snow Bunting Peninsula at Old Hickory Lake, 3 Northern Harriers at Bells Bend Park, 1 Eurasian Collared-Dove in Rutherford Co., 2 Red-headed Woodpeckers in Cheatham Co., 5 Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers, 1 Scissor-tailed Flycatcher still near the 840/24 Interchange in Rutherford Co., 2 Golden-crowned Kinglets at Harpeth East, 5 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, only 18 species of warblers with the majority being Magnolia, Black-throated Green and American Redstart, 1 early White-crowned Sparrow at Harpeth West, and 83 beautiful Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Thank you to all who participated. Canada goose 348 wood duck 25 mallard 103 blue-winged teal 7 wild turkey 98 pied-billed grebe 12 double-crested cormorant 119 great blue heron 51 great egret 15 cattle egret 4 green heron 1 black-crowned night-heron 2 black vulture 191 turkey vulture 126 osprey 4 bald eagle 1 northern harrier 3 sharp-shinned hawk 4 Cooper's hawk 12 red-shouldered hawk 11 red-tailed hawk 25 American kestrel 17 American coot 30 killdeer 76 semipalmated sandpiper 35 least sandpiper 51 pectoral sandpiper 1 ring-billed gull 5 rock pigeon 99 Eurasian collared-dove 1 mourning dove 113 eastern screech-owl 4 great horned owl 6 barred owl 6 chimney swift 104 ruby-throated hummingbird 11 belted kingfisher 22 red-headed woodpecker 2 red-bellied woodpecker 90 yellow-bellied sapsucker 5 downy woodpecker 53 hairy woodpecker 7 northern flicker 39 pileated woodpecker 14 eastern wood-pewee 17 Acadian flycatcher 1 least flycatcher 1 flycatcher sp. 3 eastern phoebe 35 scissor-tailed flycatcher 1 white-eyed vireo 8 yellow-throated vireo 3 blue-headed vireo 2 Philadelphia vireo 10 red-eyed vireo 1 blue jay 385 American crow 260 tree swallow 5 northern rough-winged swallow 10 barn swallow 2 Carolina chickadee 174 tufted titmouse 101 white-breasted nuthatch 39 Carolina wren 113 house wren 2 golden-crowned kinglet 2 ruby-crowned kinglet 5 blue-gray gnatcatcher 2 eastern bluebird 152 gray-cheeked thrush 1 Swainson's thrush 14 American robin 150 gray catbird 23 northern mockingbird 127 brown thrasher 17 European starling 730 cedar waxwing 102 Tennessee warbler 19 orange-crowned warbler 2 Nashville warbler 3 northern parula 3 yellow warbler 2 chestnut-sided warbler 10 magnolia warbler 51 yellow-rumped warbler 8 black-throated green warbler 32 pine warbler 3 palm warbler 3 bay-breasted warbler 7 black-and-white warbler 9 American redstart 31 ovenbird 1 northern waterthrush 1 common yellowthroat 12 Wilson's warbler 1 summer tanager 14 scarlet tanager 5 eastern towhee 32 chipping sparrow 12 field sparrow 96 song sparrow 4 white-crowned sparrow 1 northern cardinal 178 rose-breasted grosbeak 83 indigo bunting 49 red-winged blackbird 10 eastern meadowlark 16 common grackle 298 brown-headed cowbird 15 house finch 29 American goldfinch 117 house sparrow 20 Jan Shaw, compiler Nashville, TN =================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 __________________________________________________________ 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 _____________________________________________________________