Results of Spring Bird-Counting Events in Morgan County, Tennessee
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Table 1. Results of Spring Mini-BirdBlitzes (MBB; 1-2 parties and fewer than 12 party hours of effort) and Spring BirdBlitzes (SBB; multiple parties and 40+ hours of effort) in Morgan County.
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Type of Count | MBB | MBB | MBB | SBB |
| Date (Apr/May) | 11 | 10 | 8 | 29 |
| Number Field Observers | 1 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Number Field Parties | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Start EDT | 0610 | 0630 | 0519 | 0516 |
| End EDT | 1218 | 1645 | 1722 | 1800 |
| Hours on Foot | 4 | 2.5 | 8.25 | 18.5 |
| Hours by Car | 2.25 | 7.75 | 3.25 | 30.75 |
| Total Party Hours | 6.25 | 10.25 | 11.5 | 49.25 |
| Miles on Foot | 2 | 5.5 | 5.25 | 15.25 |
| Miles by Car | 49 | 60 | 76.75 | 437.5 |
| Total Party Miles | 51 | 65.5 | 82 | 452.75 |
| Owling Hours | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 1.5 |
| Owling Miles | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 7 |
| Feeder-watching Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Low Temperature (F) | -- | -- | -- | 50 |
| High Temperature (F) | -- | -- | -- | 80 |
| Wind Direction | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wind Speed (mph) | -- | -- | -- | 0-15 |
| Sky AM | -- | -- | -- | cloudy |
| Sky PM | -- | -- | -- | partly cloudy |
| Precipitation AM | -- | -- | -- | rain in east |
| Precipitation PM | -- | -- | -- | none |
| Compiler | DJT | DJT | DJT | SJS |
| Total Species | 63 | 78 | 89 | 122 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Canada Goose | 2 | -- | 15 | 50 |
| Wood Duck | -- | -- | -- | 15 |
| Mallard | -- | 3 | -- | 2 |
| Blue-winged Teal | -- | -- | -- | 10 |
| Northern Bobwhite | -- | -- | 3 | 2 |
| Ruffed Grouse | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Wild Turkey | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Pied-billed Grebe | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Great Blue Heron | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Green Heron | -- | 1 | 1 | 9 |
| Black Vulture | 7 | 3 | 1 | 31 |
| Turkey Vulture | 24 | 17 | 22 | 51 |
| Nothern Harrier | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Cooper's Hawk | -- | 1 | 1 | 5 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | -- | 2 | 1 | 9 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 1 | 3 | 1 | 6 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | -- | -- | 1 | 5 |
| Killdeer | -- | 6 | 9 | 21 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | -- | 2 | 2 | 7 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Least Sandpiper | -- | 5 | -- | 3 |
| Ring-billed Gull | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Rock Pigeon | -- | 9 | 7 | 26 |
| Mourning Dove | 11 | 40 | 17 | 81 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| Chuck-will's-widow | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Chimney Swift | 11 | 9 | 8 | 45 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 1 | 3 | 2 | 4 |
| Belted Kingfisher | -- | -- | 2 | 4 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 2 | 3 | 1 | 30 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 3 | 2 | 1 | 13 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | -- | -- | 1 | 3 |
| Northern Flicker | -- | 2 | 2 | 14 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 3 | 5 | 3 | 28 |
| American Kestrel | -- | 1 | 4 | 2 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 2 | 1 | 3 | 15 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | -- | 9 | 9 | 4 |
| Willow Flycatcher | -- | 3 | 3 | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 7 | 2 | 5 | 52 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 1 | -- | 1 | 25 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 3 | 3 | 2 | 39 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 4 | 3 | 8 | 80 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 1 | 6 | 2 | 26 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 2 | 5 | 3 | 18 |
| Warbling Vireo | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 10 | 28 | 31 | 143 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Blue Jay | 5 | 22 | 6 | 73 |
| American Crow | 14 | 26 | 9 | 151 |
| Horned Lark | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Purple Martin | 4 | -- | -- | 56 |
| Tree Swallow | -- | -- | -- | 71 |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 10 | 15 | 11 | 14 |
| Cliff Swallow | -- | -- | -- | 27 |
| Barn Swallow | 1 | 10 | 13 | 95 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 4 | 5 | 5 | 77 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 2 | 6 | 6 | 122 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 3 | -- | 1 | 20 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| House Wren | -- | -- | -- | 7 |
| Carolina Wren | 9 | 8 | 22 | 111 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 8 | 15 | 9 | 127 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 8 | 12 | 11 | 90 |
| Swainson's Thrush | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Wood Thrush | 1 | 5 | 4 | 46 |
| American Robin | 12 | 21 | 23 | 124 |
| Gray Catbird | 5 | 4 | 5 | 14 |
| Brown Thrasher | 2 | 4 | 9 | 37 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 3 | 6 | 4 | 39 |
| European Starling | 49 | 95 | 75 | 96 |
| Cedar Waxwing | -- | 7 | 10 | 5 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Ovenbird | 5 | 15 | 13 | 83 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 3 | -- | 3 | 10 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 2 | 1 | 1 | 13 |
| Northern Waterthrush | -- | -- | 1 | 7 |
| Blue-winged Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 10 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 6 | 8 | 4 | 64 |
| Swainson's Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 4 |
| Tennessee Warbler | -- | -- | 1 | 2 |
| Nashville Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Connecticut Warbler | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Kentucky Warbler | 2 | 3 | -- | 21 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 5 | 9 | 14 | 62 |
| Hooded Warbler | 14 | 9 | 12 | 126 |
| American Redstart | -- | 7 | 6 | 12 |
| Cape May Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Cerulean Warbler | -- | 5 | -- | 8 |
| Northern Parula | 3 | 1 | 3 | 42 |
| Magnolia Warbler | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Blackburnian Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Yellow Warbler | -- | 3 | 1 | 13 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Blackpoll Warbler | 2 | -- | 1 | 3 |
| Pine Warbler | -- | -- | 5 | -- |
| Palm Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 7 |
| Black-throated Blue Warbler | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 2 | -- | -- | 20 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 5 | 6 | 12 | 45 |
| Prairie Warbler | 4 | 6 | 11 | 76 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 2 | 13 | 18 | 33 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 5 | 7 | 14 | 34 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
| Eastern Towhee | 3 | 4 | 5 | 59 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 8 | 4 | 7 | 94 |
| Field Sparrow | 2 | 2 | 6 | 38 |
| Savannah Sparrow | -- | -- | 1 | 13 |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | 7 |
| Song Sparrow | 12 | 28 | 30 | 123 |
| Lincoln's Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Swamp Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| White-throated Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | 17 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Summer Tanager | -- | -- | 1 | 4 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 4 | 5 | 6 | 36 |
| Northern Cardinal | 13 | 15 | 12 | 151 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | -- | -- | -- | 15 |
| Blue Grosbeak | -- | 5 | -- | 23 |
| Indigo Bunting | 13 | 24 | 23 | 114 |
| Bobolink | -- | -- | -- | 8 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 15 | 19 | 29 | 236 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 6 | 22 | 19 | 79 |
| Common Grackle | 15 | 11 | 17 | 73 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 3 | 4 | 1 | 33 |
| Orchard Oriole | -- | 4 | 3 | 13 |
| Baltimore Oriole | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| House Finch | 2 | 3 | 2 | 6 |
| American Goldfinch | 7 | 11 | 12 | 103 |
| House Sparrow | 8 | 11 | 8 | 20 |
| Total Individuals | 406 | 684 | 710 | 4282 |
| Total Species | 63 | 78 | 89 | 122 |
| Year | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2014 |
David J. Trently (DJT) was the compiler of the Spring MiniBirdBlitzes in Morgan County, Tennessee. Results of the SBC in 2002 are presented in Hoff (2002c); results of the SBC in 2003 are presented in Hoff (2003b); and results of the SBC in 2004 are presented in Hoff (2004c). Stephen J. Stedman (SJS) compiled the results of the Spring BirdBlitz in 2014; participants in that count follow: Janie C. Finch, Richard C. Finch, Edmund K. LeGrand, Stephanie McNew, N. P. "Mac" McWhirter, Susan N. McWhirter, Stephen J. Stedman.
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