Spring Count 2010 Results
Area: Transylvania County, NC
20 people in 10 field parties
68 total hours (25 on foot, 43 in car)
266 total miles (22 on foot, 244 in car)
2 hours owling
16 people at feeders
58 feeder-hours total
Hours 6 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Temperature 60-75 degrees F.
Partly sunny, somewhat overcast, occasional light showers in some areas
Elevation range 2100 – 5600 ft.
Participants (36 total)
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Dennis Allen Kathryn Allen Marvin Barg Michele Barg Dorothy Bauer Joan Beard Pat Blaine Dick Blee Silvia Blee Pat Bohan Elizabeth Galloway Jerry Griggs |
Jeanne Grimmenga Richard Jackson Louise Kempe Rebecca Kindred Joe Kotowski Eleanor Kuss Jim Kuss Deynise Lau Joan Macdonald Jim McIntosh Gary Miller Carolyn Mills |
Janie Owens Carolyn Powell Mary Sauerteig Bill Siebenheller Norma Siebenheller (compiler) Bill Thomas Shirl Thomas Charlie Threatte Linda Threatte Noel Thurner Sam Woodruff Camille Ziegler |
Compiler’s Comments: We were quite pleased with our results this year, given the cold, late spring and the count’s very early date of May 1. At 115 species, we are in the mid-range of our possibilities, far better than the disappointing 109 we tallied last year. Most of the high-elevation specialties were present, and some hard-to-get warblers such as Swainson’s and Kentucky were found at lower altitudes. On the minus side, we located no Cerulean Warblers this year, and both Sharp-shinned and Cooper’s Hawks were absent. Shorebirds, with the exception of the common Solitary and Spotted Sandpipers, were not present at all. However, with the help of many phone calls and some cooperative home observers, we were able to find all three of our common owls, and several Whippoorwills as well, so our night birds are well represented.
Norma Siebenheller, compiler
Species Recorded (115 total)
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Common Loon 1 Double-crested Cormorant 10 Great Blue Heron 12 Green Heron 1 Canada Goose 83 Wood Duck 1 Mallard 16 Black Vulture 4 Turkey Vulture 19 Osprey 1 Red-shouldered Hawk 2 Broad-winged Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 6 American Kestrel 1 Peregrine Falcon 1 Wild Turkey 13 Killdeer 1 Solitary Sandpiper 2 Spotted Sandpiper 3 Rock Pigeon 1 Mourning Dove 99 Yellow-billed Cuckoo 1 Eastern Screech-owl 1 Barred Owl 2 Great Horned Owl 3 Whippoorwill 3 Chimney Swift 13 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 39 Belted Kingfisher 8 Red-bellied Woodpecker 41 Downy Woodpecker 10 Hairy Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 8 Pileated Woodpecker 32 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Eastern Phoebe 34 Great Crested Flycatcher 9 Eastern Kingbird 10 |
Purple Martin 40 Tree Swallow 179 Rough-winged Swallow 32 Barn Swallow 119 Blue Jay 65 American Crow 214 Common Raven 2 Black-capped Chickadee 3 Carolina Chickadee 89 Tufted Titmouse 125 Red-breasted Nuthatch 11 White-breasted Nuthatch 24 Brown Creeper 2 Carolina Wren 69 House Wren 45 Winter Wren 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet 7 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 19 Eastern Bluebird 60 Wood Thrush 16 American Robin 173 Gray Catbird 20 Northern Mockingbird 33 Brown Thrasher 27 Cedar Waxwing 37 Eurasian Starling 95 White-eyed Vireo 9 Blue-headed Vireo 44 Red-eyed Vireo 93 Northern Parula 61 Yellow Warbler 13 Chestnut-sided Warbler 38 Cape May Warbler 2 Black-throated Blue Warbler 16 Yellow-rumped Warbler 18 Black-throated Green Warbler 27 Blackburnian Warbler 5 Yellow-throated Warbler 14 |
Pine Warbler 4 Palm Warbler 1 Blackpoll Warbler 1 Black-and-white Warbler 9 American Redstart 3 Worm-eating Warbler 7 Swainson’s Warbler 2 Ovenbird 23 Northern Waterthrush 3 Louisiana Waterthrush 10 Kentucky Warbler 2 Common Yellowthroat 21 Hooded Warbler 61 Canada Warbler 9 Yellow-breasted Chat 4 Scarlet Tanager 18 Northern Cardinal 144 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 8 Blue Grosbeak 3 Indigo Bunting 29 Eastern Towhee 201 Chipping Sparrow 28 Field Sparrow 18 Song Sparrow 184 White-throated Sparrow 4 Dark-eyed Junco 27 Bobolink 13 Red-winged Blackbird 105 Eastern Meadowlark 10 Common Grackle 51 Brown-headed Cowbird 38 Orchard Oriole 1 Baltimore Oriole 1 Purple Finch 1 House Finch 17 American Goldfinch 221 House Sparrow 7 |