Results of Pooled Data Event in Morgan County, TN, Following the Methodology of the Great Backyard Bird Count—16 February 2014

Red-shouldered Hawk [ventral view of adult in flight]. Photograph Credit: Melinda E. Fawver; Wartburg, Morgan County, Tennessee; 16 February 2014. Image captured during the Pooled Data Event of the Great Backyard Bird Count.

 

 

Four observers (Doug Bruce, Mindy Fawver, Ed LeGrand, and Steve Stedman) worked in three parties and submitted a total of 35 check-lists during the Pooled Data Event of the Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) in Morgan County 16 February 2014.  Results of their efforts are summarized below.  Weather included icy roads with some snow on ground.

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Table with Results of GBBC Pooled Data Effort in Morgan County, Tennessee, 16 February 2014.

Observers EKL SJS MEF & DRB

Total

 
Location in Morgan County SE W NE

 

 
Number of GBBC Check-lists Submitted 11 10 14

35

 
Low Temperature

25
High Temperature

53
Sky AM

clear
Sky PM

mostly clear
Precipitation AM

none
Precipitation PM

none
Wind AM

0-5
Wind PM

0-15
Moon Phase

Full
         
Canada Goose 12 22 13 47
Wood Duck 4 4
American Black Duck 4 4
Mallard 8 6 14
Ring-necked Duck 20 20
Bufflehead 1 1
Red-breasted Merganser 4 4
Black Vulture 2 2
Turkey Vulture 5 3 3 11
Bald Eagle 1 1
Cooper's Hawk 2 1 2 5
Red-shouldered Hawk 1 2 6 9
Red-tailed Hawk 4 1 2 7
Rough-legged Hawk 1 1
American Coot 1 1 2
Killdeer 2 2 1 5
Rock Pigeon 6 4 10
Mourning Dove 16 21 3 40
Eastern Screech-Owl 1 1
Barred Owl 1 1
Red-headed Woodpecker 1 1
Red-bellied Woodpecker 11 22 4 37
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1 1 2
Downy Woodpecker 5 3 6 14
Hairy Woodpecker 3 1 4
Northern Flicker 2 7 5 14
Pileated Woodpecker 4 5 10 19
American Kestrel 6 6
Eastern Phoebe 1 4 5
Blue Jay 23 24 4 51
American Crow 124 58 36 218
Carolina Chickadee 16 41 31 88
Tufted Titmouse 18 25 12 55
White-breasted Nuthatch 7 10 10 27
Brown-headed Nuthatch 1 1 2
Winter Wren 3 3 6
Carolina Wren 21 21 23 65
Golden-crowned Kinglet 3 8 6 17
Eastern Bluebird 10 35 18 63
Hermit Thrush 8 6 2 16
American Robin 67 205 105 377
Brown Thrasher 1 2 3
Northern Mockingbird 5 4 2 11
European Starling 138 311 204 653
Cedar Waxwing 1 1
Yellow-rumped Warbler 10 13 7 30
Eastern Towhee 11 21 3 35
Chipping Sparrow 15 15
Field Sparrow 40 23 12 75
Song Sparrow 42 26 22 90
Swamp Sparrow 7 3 3 13
White-throated Sparrow 19 22 71 112
Dark-eyed Junco 23 19 45 87
Northern Cardinal 17 17 26 60
Red-winged Blackbird 4 33 37
Eastern Meadowlark 1 54 10 65
Common Grackle 2 2
American Goldfinch 23 6 10 39
House Sparrow 1 4 2 7
         
Total Individuals 746 1125 740 2611
         
Total Species 48 47 42 59
 
Key to Observer Initials:
 
DRB--Douglas R. Bruce
MEF--Melinda E. Fawver
EKL--Edmund K. LeGrand
SJS--Stephen J. Stedman
 
Comments:
 
Most back roads with ice and snow until
     c. 11:00 AM EST
RBME--county record  (Rt. 299--EKL)
BAEA--ad. just over line in Fentress Co.
     (Catfish Farm Rd.--SJS)
RLHA--im. light morph just over line in
     Fentress Co. (Catfish Farm Rd.--SJS)
BHNU--Solomon Park (EKL); and
     Meister Hill Rd. (SJS)

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