Results of the 31st Putnam County, Tennessee, Spring Bird Count—8 May 2004
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| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Party Leader | SJS | GKE | WAW | RWS | BHS | DLC | Total | |
| Party Members | CDW | DAD | MPO | TMC | TR | JEBH | ||
| JCF | JCO | MV | JaF | |||||
| AMH | KB | MR | ||||||
| ILC | ||||||||
| PP | ||||||||
| Number Field Observers | 4 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 0 | 16 |
| Number Field Parties | 1 | 1–2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 6–7 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 5 |
| Start CDT | 0245 | |||||||
| End CDT | 2000 | |||||||
| Hours on Foot | 0.5 | 12.25 | 4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 4 | 0 | 21.75 |
| Hours by Car | 13.75 | 4 | 8.5 | 3.25 | 12.5 | 9 | 0 | 51 |
| Total Party Hours | 14.25 | 16.25 | 12.5 | 4.25 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 72.75 |
| Miles on Foot | 0.25 | 6 | 3 | 0.25 | 0.5 | 1 | 0 | 11 |
| Miles by Car | 153 | 55 | 97 | 38 | 130 | 40 | 0 | 513 |
| Total Party Miles | 153.25 | 61 | 100 | 38.25 | 130.5 | 41 | 0 | 524 |
| Owling Hours | 2.25 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4.25 |
| Owling Miles | 31 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 64 |
| Feeder-watching Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | 12.5 |
| Low Temperature (F) | 54 | |||||||
| High Temperature (F) | 89 | |||||||
| Wind Direction | Variable | |||||||
| Wind AM (mph) | 0–5 | |||||||
| Wind PM (mph) | 0–5 | |||||||
| Sky AM | clear | |||||||
| Sky PM | clear | |||||||
| Precipitation AM | none | |||||||
| Precipitation PM | none | |||||||
| Moon Phase | past full, waning | |||||||
| Total Species | 101 | 83 | 79 | 69 | 109 | 93 | 45 | 129 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Canada Goose | 6 | 8 | 95 | -- | 52 | 18 | -- | 179* |
| Wood Duck | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 5 | 5 | -- | 11 |
| Mallard | -- | 2 | 6 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 10 |
| Ring-necked Duck | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Lesser Scaup | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Northern Bobwhite | 1 | 4 | 8 | -- | 6 | 2 | 1 | 22 |
| Wild Turkey | 3 | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- | 8 |
| Double-crested Cormorant | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 0 | 5 | -- | 7 |
| Great Blue Heron | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 7 | -- | 12 |
| Green Heron | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 1 | 2 | -- | 5 |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 |
| Black Vulture | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 4 | -- | 7 |
| Turkey Vulture | 11 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 18 | 12 | 1 | 47 |
| Accipiter sp. | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 3 | 1 | 1 | -- | 3 | 5 | -- | 13 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | 3 |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 1 | 1 | 2 | -- | 4 | 2 | -- | 10 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Killdeer | 4 | 18 | 9 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -- | 47 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 2 | 4 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 7 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 5 | -- | -- | 7* |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3* |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Least Sandpiper | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| American Woodcock | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Tern sp. | -- | 2 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Rock Pigeon | 6 | 15 | 2 | -- | 1 | 22 | -- | 46 |
| Mourning Dove | 55 | 66 | 45 | 6 | 48 | 62 | 16 | 298 |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 6 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | -- | 10 |
| Barn Owl | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 2 |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 3 |
| Great Horned Owl | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Barred Owl | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | 5 |
| Common Nighthawk | -- | 4 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 6 |
| Chuck-will's-widow | 9 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 12 |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | 5 | -- | -- | -- | 10 | -- | -- | 15 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Chimney Swift | 10 | 28 | 23 | 3 | 42 | 10 | 2 | 118 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 4 | 4 | -- | -- | 1 | 6 | 2 | 17* |
| Belted Kingfisher | 3 | -- | 1 | 1 | 3 | 2 | -- | 10* |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 1 | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | -- | 7 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 15 | 6 | 4 | 1 | 31 | 4 | 2 | 63 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 2 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 11 | 3 | 4 | 29 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | 1 | -- | 3 | 2 | 7 | 2 | -- | 15* |
| Northern Flicker | 3 | 3 | 4 | -- | 4 | 1 | 2 | 17 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 6 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 31 |
| American Kestrel | 1 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 5 |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 14 | -- | 10 | 6 | 12 | 9 | -- | 51 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | 26 | -- | 5 | 6 | 14 | 2 | -- | 53 |
| Empidonax sp. | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Eastern Phoebe | 26 | 8 | 13 | 5 | 18 | 6 | 1 | 77** |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 7 | 17 | 13 | 4 | 22 | 13 | 4 | 80** |
| Eastern Kingbird | 16 | 21 | 27 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 1 | 95 |
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| White-eyed Vireo | 62 | 1 | 17 | 18 | 42 | 7 | -- | 147 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 20 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 12 | 2 | 1 | 43 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | -- | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | 4 |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 177 | 12 | 62 | 75 | 110 | 47 | 1 | 484 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Blue Jay | 8 | 33 | 18 | 4 | 30 | 24 | 8 | 125 |
| American Crow | 21 | 14 | 18 | 7 | 15 | 23 | 4 | 102 |
| Horned Lark | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | 3 |
| Purple Martin | 1 | 7 | 3 | 3 | 17 | 20 | 6 | 57 |
| Tree Swallow | -- | 4 | 7 | -- | 18 | 2 | -- | 31* |
| Northern Rough-winged Swallow | 3 | 8 | 18 | -- | 16 | 2 | 1 | 48 |
| Barn Swallow | 17 | 12 | 23 | 4 | 74 | 20 | -- | 150 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 6 | 19 | 8 | 6 | 30 | 4 | 5 | 78 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 11 | 22 | 30 | 16 | 32 | 8 | 6 | 125 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 2 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 3 | 30 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | -- | -- | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| House Wren | 7 | 2 | 8 | 1 | 11 | 8 | 4 | 41** |
| Carolina Wren | 31 | 28 | 30 | 27 | 39 | 20 | 10 | 185 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 74 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 47 | 27 | -- | 162 |
| Eastern Bluebird | 22 | 28 | 30 | 7 | 49 | 39 | 6 | 181 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Swainson's Thrush | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 8 |
| Wood Thrush | 31 | 3 | 7 | 1 | 26 | 7 | -- | 75 |
| American Robin | 30 | 65 | 49 | 13 | 70 | 64 | 7 | 298 |
| Gray Catbird | 7 | 12 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 37 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 13 | 36 | 29 | 5 | 11 | 34 | 5 | 133 |
| Brown Thrasher | 9 | 15 | 16 | 6 | 14 | 10 | 3 | 73 |
| European Starling | 14 | 245 | 53 | 29 | 113 | 132 | 8 | 594 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 3 | 3 | -- | -- | 1 | 9 | -- | 16 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Ovenbird | 5 | 3 | 6 | 15 | 78 | -- | -- | 107 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 6 | -- | -- | 1 | 10 | 2 | -- | 19 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 10 | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 3 | -- | 18 |
| Northern Waterthrush | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 23 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 24 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | 3 | 18 | 3 | -- | 25 |
| Prothonotary Warbler | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 3 |
| Tennessee Warbler | 5 | -- | 2 | -- | 1 | 5 | -- | 13 |
| Kentucky Warbler | 40 | 2 | 6 | 13 | 15 | 4 | -- | 80 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 65 | 23 | 41 | 29 | 49 | 28 | -- | 235 |
| Hooded Warbler | 31 | -- | 5 | 19 | 58 | 2 | -- | 115 |
| American Redstart | 38 | -- | -- | -- | 28 | 2 | -- | 68** |
| Cape May Warbler | 1 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 4 |
| Cerulean Warbler | 20 | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | 2 | -- | 26 |
| Northern Parula | 23 | -- | -- | 1 | 4 | 7 | -- | 35 |
| Magnolia Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | 2 |
| Yellow Warbler | 9 | 3 | 3 | -- | 9 | 2 | -- | 26 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Blackpoll Warbler | 5 | 2 | -- | 3 | 2 | 4 | -- | 16 |
| Palm Warbler | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| Pine Warbler | -- | 6 | 2 | 2 | 30 | 4 | 1 | 45 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 1 | 3 | -- | 1 | 6 | -- | -- | 11 |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 10 | -- | 7 | 6 | 15 | 2 | -- | 40** |
| Prairie Warbler | 28 | -- | 2 | 7 | 35 | 2 | -- | 74 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 1 | 4 | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 7 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 30 | 1 | 9 | 2 | 43 | 6 | -- | 91 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW |
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| Eastern Towhee | 41 | 13 | 23 | 14 | 33 | 8 | 6 | 138 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 16 | 11 | 18 | 12 | 72 | 21 | 3 | 153 |
| Field Sparrow | 36 | 12 | 15 | 17 | 38 | 27 | 1 | 147 |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 | 6 | -- | 9 |
| Song Sparrow | 16 | 33 | 34 | 21 | 68 | 24 | 2 | 198 |
| Swamp Sparrow | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- | 2 |
| White-throated Sparrow | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| White-crowned Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Summer Tanager | 30 | 11 | 9 | 1 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 67 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 18 | 2 | 7 | 13 | 21 | 14 | -- | 75** |
| Northern Cardinal | 57 | 46 | 48 | 21 | 110 | 35 | 16 | 333 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 2 | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 5 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 3 | -- | -- | 2 | 3 | 5 | -- | 13 |
| Indigo Bunting | 209 | 41 | 74 | 78 | 145 | 60 | 6 | 613 |
| Dickcissel | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 2 |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 20 | 40 | 55 | 17 | 100 | 49 | 3 | 284 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 13 | 26 | 32 | 16 | 75 | 43 | 1 | 206 |
| Common Grackle | 15 | 22 | 40 | 3 | 28 | 23 | 8 | 139 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 15 | 9 | 17 | -- | 30 | 23 | 3 | 97 |
| Orchard Oriole | 26 | 8 | 3 | 3 | 10 | 8 | -- | 58 |
| Baltimore Oriole | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 |
| House Finch | 6 | 17 | 11 | 5 | 40 | 5 | 7 | 91 |
| American Goldfinch | 7 | 14 | 24 | 10 | 53 | 9 | 7 | 124 |
| House Sparrow | 11 | 8 | 5 | 8 | 44 | 7 | 2 | 85 |
| Total Individuals | 1730 | 1180 | 1241 | 627 | 2459 | 1219 | 188 | 8644 |
| Total Species | 101 | 83 | 79 | 69 | 109 | 93 | 45 | 129 |
| Location | W | NW | NNE | NE | SE | SW | FW | Total |
Key to Participants:
| Name | Initials |
| Kris Bolin | KB |
| Terry M. Campbell | TMC |
| Daniel L. Combs | DLC |
| Ivan L. Cordrey | ILC |
| D. Ann Davis | DAD |
| Ginger K. Ensor | GKE |
| Janie C. Finch | JaF |
| Judy C. Fuson | JCF |
| Jane E. B. Herrin | JEBH |
| A. Margo Hinkle | AMH |
| Michael P. O'Rourke | MPO |
| John C. Owens | JCO |
| Pam Pate | PP |
| Michele Ramsey | MR |
| Thomas Roberts | TR |
| Richard W. Simmers, Jr. | RWS |
| Barbara H. Stedman | BHS |
| Stephen J. Stedman, compiler | SJS |
| Winston A. Walden | WAW |
| Carol D. Williams | CDW |
| Mark Vance | MV |
Notes:
The species presented in bold red (1) was new to the Putnam County Spring Bird Count, bringing the all-time species total for the count to 197. Species totals (7) followed by one asterisk (*) were counted in highest ever numbers on the Putnam County Spring Bird Count; species totals (6) followed by two asterisks (**) were counted in highest ever numbers on the Putnam County Spring Bird Count and in all-time high numbers for the county.
The Ring-necked Duck was a male seen on a pond at the Hackworth Farm on Rt. 62 in eastern Putnam County.
The Lesser Scaup was a female seen at Cane Creek Park.
The Double-crested Cormorants included singles seen at Cane Creek Park and at Boring Pond, as well as a flock of five seen in flight over Cookeville Boatdock Rd.
The Yellow-crowned Night-Heron was an adult seen just above Middle Falls at Burgess Falls State Natural Area.
The Lesser Yellowlegs were seen at the Happy Hollow Boat Ramp on the Caney Fork River.
The Semipalmated Sandpipers were seen at a pond near the upper end of Macedonia Cemetery Rd.
The Least Sandpipers were seen at the Happy Hollow Boat Ramp on the Caney Fork River.
The Barn Owls were seen at the traditional site in the county; at least four young were also present.
The Loggerhead Shrike was seen at Shipley Farm.
The Horned Larks were found at the Hackworth Farm on Rt. 62 in eastern Putnam County.
The Brown-headed Nuthatches were counted at the Cookeville Golf Course.
Three of the Grasshopper Sparrows were found at the Hackworth Farm on Rt. 62 in eastern Putnam County, while four were noted in the vicinity of Old Mill Rd. in southwestern Putnam County.
The White-throated Sparrow was noted at the Ironwood Golf Course.
The White-crowned Sparrow was noted in extreme western Putnam County.
The Dickcissels were found in the vicinity of Old Mill Rd. in southwestern Putnam County.
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