Shady Valley / Mountain City CBC

COUNT SUMMARY

Count Name: Shady Valley-Mountain City (Johnson County)
Count Date: Jan 1, 2007
Compiler: Robert Biller
Date of Printout: January 16, 2007
Organizations and Sponsors: Bristol Bird Club

Count Code: TNSV
Number of Party Hours: 29.5
Species reported on count date: 54

Start and End Times
0906:00 AM to 0904:30 PM (min and max for 4 parties)

Effort
Observers 20
In Field:
Total Number: 12
Minimum Number of Parties (daylight): 4
Maximum Number of Parties (daylight): 4
At Feeders:
Total Number: 0
Party Hours and Distance
(excludes viewing at feeders and nocturnal birding)
All distances are in miles.
By Foot :
Hours: 12.0 =09Distance: 6.00 mi
By Car :
Hours: 17.5 =09Distance: 225.50 mi
By Other Transportation:
(optional)

Nocturnal Birding:
Hours:1.0 =09Distance: .00 mi

Totals
Total Party :
Hours: 29.5 Distance: 231.50 mi

Weather
Temperature Minimum: 40F Maximum: 55F
Wind Direction North East 20mph
Wind Velocity Minimum: 10.0 Maximum: 35.0
Snow Depth Minimum: 0.0 Maximum: 0.0
Still Water Open
Moving Water Open
AM and PM Conditions
Cloud Cover AM: Partly Cloudy PM: Cloudy
AM Rain Light
AM Snow None
PM Rain None
PM Snow None

Special Aspects for Count Circle

Weather in East Tennessee have been unseasonable warm over the past couple of weeks before and including the count date. The day before the count, there was rain which I thought it would help this count, but I fear the high gusts of winds helped to keep this year's count down with the lowest numbers in the count history. No unusual birds (we usually get at least a couple unusual birds) and lower numbers (except for Song Sparrow which broke the high count for the species) make the count itself unusual this year.

Number of counts:

* in parenthesis is the high count for the species and in what audubon count year.

Canada Goose 140(179 in 101)
Mallard 50 (59 in 99)
Ruffed Grouse 2(2 in 100)
Wild Turkey 6(38 in 103)
Great Blue Heron (Blue form)5(7 in 103)
Black Vulture 5(15 in 102)
Turkey Vulture 7(33 in 104)
Cooper's Hawk 3(6 in 103)
Red-tailed Hawk 4(11 in 101)
American Kestrel 9(16 in 103)
Killdeer 25(28 in 103)
Wilson's Snipe 2 (3 in 103)
Rock Pigeon 6
Mourning Dove 136 (367 in 102)
Eastern Screech-Owl1(17 in 100)
Barred Owl 1(4 in 104)
Belted Kingfisher 12(9 in 98)
Red-bellied Woodpecker 4(10 in 104)
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2(5 in 104)
Downy Woodpecker =12(24 in 100)
Hairy Woodpecker 4 (10 in 104)
Northern (Yellow-shafted)Flicker 4(10 in 104)
Pileated Woodpecker 4(18 in 104)
Eastern Phoebe 10(11 in 99)
Blue Jay 18(45 in 100)
American Crow 689(1672 in 98)
Common Raven 3(9 in 104)
Carolina Chickadee 73(115 in 104)
Tufted Titmouse 13(59 in 104)
Red-breasted Nuthatch 8 (8 in 98)
White-breasted Nuthatch 11(29 in 100)
Brown Creeper 1(2 in 104)
Carolina Wren 49 (87 in 100)
Winter Wren 4 (4 in 99)
Golden-crowned Kinglet 22(51 in 103)
Eastern Bluebird 7(103 in 100)
Hermit Thrush 6(6 in 104)
American Robin 6(86 in 102)
Northern Mockingbird 21 HC(20 in 100)
European Starling 393(1026 in 98)
Cedar Waxwing 65(185 in 102)
Eastern Towhee 1 (16 in 101)
Field Sparrow 45 HC(31 in 100)
Song Sparrow 231 HC, (199 in 100)
Swamp Sparrow 17(36 in 101)
White-throated Sparrow 76(101 in 104)
White-crowned Sparrow 6(68 in 101)
Dark-eyed (Slate-colored) Junco 198(388 in 99)
Northern Cardinal 59(111 in 99)
Eastern Meadowlark 1(48 in 101)
House Finch 7(99 in 100)
American Goldfinch 120(294 in 100) =09 =20
House Sparrow 51(61 in 99)

TOTAL INDIVIDUALS
COUNTED 2655
TOTAL SPECIES REPORTED 54

cw =3D Reported count week;
US =3D Flagged as an unusual species;
HC =3D Flagged as an unusually high count.
LC =3D Flagged as an unusually low count.