County, Tennessee, 17 July 2003; photo Stephen J. Stedman.
Results of Spring Bird Counts and Spring BirdBlitzes Conducted in the Upper Cumberland Region of Kentucky and Tennessee—April and May 2012
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| Barb Stedman
conducting field work for a bird inventory of Stones River National
Battlefield, Rutherford County, Tennessee, 17 July 2003; photo Stephen J. Stedman. |
The Regional birding counting effort this spring was dedicated to the memory of Barbara Hart Stedman, whose presence on Regional bird counts was missed for the first time in two decades. Thanks to the compilers who agreed to this dedication.
During the Regional Spring Bird Counts (SBC) and Spring BirdBlitzes (SBB) conducted this spring, 163 species were detected, well over half of the all-time species (313) recorded in the Region. Some important results of these counts included the second Regional record of White-winged Dove in White County, TN, the first record having taken place only six days earlier in Bledsoe County; first county records in several counties, including the aforementioned dove and Snowy Egret in White County, Willet in Cumberland County, Henslow's Sparrow in Bledsoe County, Bobolink in Wayne County, and a hybrid Scissor-tailed Flycatcher X kingbird sp. in Putnam County.
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To see a map (Figure 1) depicting the location of counties in which a SBC or SBB was conducted this spring, click on the link below:
Table 1. Results of 2012 Spring Bird Counts (SBC) and Spring BirdBlitzes (SBB) in the Upper Cumberland Region.
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Type of Count | SBC | SBB | SBC | SBB | SBC | SBC |
| Date (April/May) | 28 | 1 | 5 | 8 | 12 | 12 |
| Number Field Observers * | 9 | 7 | 11 | 5 | 15 | 7 |
| Number Field Parties | 6 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 6 |
| Number Feederwatchers | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 |
| Start CDT/EDT | 0335 | 0400 | 0350 | 0542 | 0415 | 0530 |
| End CDT/EDT | 2000 | 1800 | 1900 | 1650 | 1940 | 2100 |
| Hours on Foot | 16 | 2.75 | 7.5 | 3.5 | 14.5 | 8.75 |
| Hours by Car | 46.5 | 29.25 | 49.25 | 31.25 | 58.5 | 42.75 |
| Total Party Hours | 62.5 | 32 | 56.75 | 34.75 | 73 | 51.5 |
| Miles on Foot | 9.5 | 1 | 3.5 | 3.5 | 13 | 5 |
| Miles by Car | 500.25 | 309 | 443 | 224 | 562 | 395 |
| Total Party Miles | 509.75 | 310 | 446.5 | 227.5 | 575 | 400 |
| Owling Hours | 4.5 | 2.25 | 3 | 0.75 | 2.5 | 1 |
| Owling Miles | 30.5 | 30 | 41.25 | 4 | 49.5 | 7 |
| Feeder-watching Hours | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
| Low Temperature (F) | 57 | 59 | 60 | 64 | 53 | 50 |
| High Temperature (F) | 79 | 84 | 85 | 75 | 75 | 77 |
| Wind Direction | SSW | SSW | NA | NA | Var | NA |
| Wind Speed (mph) | 0–10 | 0–13 | 0–5 | 0–10 | 0–15 | NA |
| Sky AM | Partly Cloudy | Partly Cloudy | Overcast | Cloudy | Cloudy | Mostly Cloudy |
| Sky PM | Clear | Partly Cloudy | Clear | Partly Cloudy | Cloudy | Mostly Cloudy |
| Precipitation AM | None | None | Occ Showers | Rain (2 hrs.) | Occ Driz | None |
| Precipitation PM | None | Brief Shower | None | None | Occ Driz | None |
| Compiler * | EKL | EKL | DAD | RMD | JCF | RMD |
| Total Species | 128 | 116 | 135 | 107 | 128 | 120 |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Canada Goose | 107 | 56 | 148 | 22 | 271 | 68 |
| Mute Swan | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Wood Duck | 23 | 6 | 40 | 10 | 20 | 27 |
| Mallard | 27 | 8 | 32 | 5 | 36 | 21 |
| Blue-winged Teal | 5 | 3 | 11 | -- | 2 | 1 |
| Ring-necked Duck | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- |
| Bufflehead | 1 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Northern Bobwhite | 5 | 6 | 21 | 5 | 22 | 18 |
| Wild Turkey | 7 | 5 | 25 | 11 | 22 | 6 |
| Common Loon | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | 2 | -- |
| Double-crested Cormorant | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | -- |
| Great Blue Heron | 2 | 3 | 17 | 6 | 41 | 22 |
| Great Egret | -- | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Snowy Egret | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Green Heron | 3 | 2 | 11 | 1 | 24 | 4 |
| Yellow-crowned Night-Heron | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 ad. | -- |
| Black Vulture | 4 | 3 | 149 | 15 | 19 | 10 |
| Turkey Vulture | 41 | 61 | 120 | 44 | 109 | 82 |
| Osprey | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Bald Eagle | -- | -- | -- | 1 im. | 1 ad. | 1 ad. |
| Northern Harrier | -- | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | -- |
| Sharp-shinned Hawk | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Cooper's Hawk | 3 | -- | 5 | 1 | 6 | 2 |
| Red-shouldered Hawk | 11 | 2 | 12 | 1 | 15 | 2 |
| Broad-winged Hawk | 10 | -- | 5 | 1 | 4 | -- |
| Red-tailed Hawk | 5 | 3 | 11 | 4 | 11 | 3 |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| American Coot | 5 | -- | 1 | -- | 4 | -- |
| Semipalmated Plover | -- | 1 | 8 | -- | -- | -- |
| Killdeer | 23 | 22 | 48 | 12 | 40 | 11 |
| Spotted Sandpiper | 3 | 6 | 9 | -- | 24 | 2 |
| Solitary Sandpiper | 11 | 10 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 3 |
| Greater Yellowlegs | 1 | 2 | 10 | -- | -- | -- |
| Willet | 21 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Lesser Yellowlegs | -- | 3 | 10 | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Least Sandpiper | 1 | 9 | 4 | 22 | -- | 2 |
| Semipalmated Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- | -- |
| Pectoral Sandpiper | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 |
| Dowitcher sp. | -- | -- | 5 | -- | -- | -- |
| Wilson's Snipe | 3 | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| American Woodcock | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Rock Pigeon | 12 | 3 | 34 | 9 | 109 | 4 |
| Eurasian Collared-Dove | -- | 4 | 11 | 3 | 1 | -- |
| Mourning Dove | 155 | 107 | 339 | 191 | 472 | 177 |
| White-winged Dove | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Yellow-billed Cuckoo | 1 | 7 | 6 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
| Barn Owl | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Eastern Screech-Owl | 1 | 8 | 2 | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Great Horned Owl | 2 | 2 | 2 | -- | -- | -- |
| Barred Owl | 6 | 2 | 1 | -- | 9 | -- |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Common Nighthawk | -- | -- | 4 | -- | 2 | 1 |
| Chuck-will's-widow | 4 | 10 | 9 | 2 | 14 | 1 |
| Eastern Whip-poor-will | 46 | 4 | 33 | 3 | -- | 1 |
| Chimney Swift | 42 | 21 | 48 | 27 | 154 | 34 |
| Ruby-throated Hummingbird | 12 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 12 | 4 |
| Belted Kingfisher | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 10 | 3 |
| Red-headed Woodpecker | 12 | 5 | 19 | 7 | 16 | 13 |
| Red-bellied Woodpecker | 37 | 47 | 70 | 31 | 88 | 27 |
| Downy Woodpecker | 9 | 7 | 13 | 11 | 24 | 14 |
| Hairy Woodpecker | -- | 2 | 3 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Northern Flicker | 10 | 6 | 8 | 12 | 20 | 21 |
| Pileated Woodpecker | 33 | 9 | 17 | 6 | 35 | 15 |
| American Kestrel | 9 | 6 | 11 | 8 | 14 | 10 |
| Olive-sided Flycatcher | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Eastern Wood-Pewee | 15 | 27 | 81 | 49 | 87 | 48 |
| Acadian Flycatcher | 4 | 9 | 27 | 12 | 82 | 14 |
| Empidonax sp. | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Phoebe | 56 | 26 | 46 | 17 | 64 | 16 |
| Great Crested Flycatcher | 39 | 23 | 66 | 27 | 62 | 28 |
| Eastern Kingbird | 52 | 27 | 81 | 40 | 98 | 37 |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher | -- | 12 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Scissor-tailed Flycatcher hybrid | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 | -- |
| Loggerhead Shrike | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 3 | -- |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| White-eyed Vireo | 103 | 44 | 56 | 47 | 135 | 45 |
| Yellow-throated Vireo | 33 | 23 | 27 | 19 | 36 | 13 |
| Blue-headed Vireo | 11 | 4 | 5 | -- | 5 | 2 |
| Warbling Vireo | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | 1 |
| Philadelphia Vireo | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Red-eyed Vireo | 370 | 233 | 249 | 106 | 442 | 134 |
| Blue Jay | 76 | 44 | 76 | 42 | 119 | 57 |
| American Crow | 206 | 135 | 179 | 114 | 331 | 143 |
| Horned Lark | 1 | -- | 6 | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Purple Martin | 76 | 53 | 101 | 84 | 110 | 114 |
| Tree Swallow | 48 | 5 | 26 | 9 | 29 | 17 |
| N. Rough-winged Swallow | 20 | 11 | 32 | 16 | 48 | 24 |
| Bank Swallow | 2 | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| Cliff Swallow | -- | 51 | 19 | -- | 8 | 26 |
| Barn Swallow | 152 | 108 | 212 | 89 | 250 | 106 |
| Carolina Chickadee | 93 | 44 | 51 | 45 | 88 | 49 |
| Tufted Titmouse | 117 | 104 | 163 | 78 | 183 | 93 |
| White-breasted Nuthatch | 30 | 20 | 16 | 6 | 24 | 13 |
| Brown-headed Nuthatch | -- | -- | -- | -- | 2 | -- |
| House Wren | 23 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 21 | 7 |
| Carolina Wren | 130 | 84 | 163 | 114 | 208 | 71 |
| Blue-gray Gnatcatcher | 127 | 65 | 105 | 66 | 152 | 44 |
| Ruby-crowned Kinglet | 4 | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Eastern Bluebird | 124 | 92 | 193 | 67 | 334 | 81 |
| Gray-cheeked Thrush | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Swainson's Thrush | 2 | -- | 1 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Hermit Thrush | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Wood Thrush | 62 | 32 | 32 | 28 | 68 | 45 |
| American Robin | 410 | 82 | 210 | 359 | 647 | 490 |
| Gray Catbird | 26 | 3 | 9 | 11 | 11 | 10 |
| Northern Mockingbird | 88 | 105 | 290 | 73 | 250 | 92 |
| Brown Thrasher | 52 | 29 | 39 | 23 | 68 | 27 |
| European Starling | 425 | 151 | 731 | 519 | 2451 | 1014 |
| Cedar Waxwing | 104 | 71 | 51 | 10 | 248 | 31 |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Ovenbird | 133 | 39 | 38 | 21 | 37 | 44 |
| Worm-eating Warbler | 20 | 11 | 4 | 4 | 9 | 2 |
| Louisiana Waterthrush | 7 | 6 | 10 | -- | 20 | -- |
| Northern Waterthrush | -- | 2 | 1 | -- | -- | -- |
| Golden-winged Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Blue-winged Warbler | 9 | -- | -- | 10 | 17 | 7 |
| Black-and-white Warbler | 104 | 27 | 26 | 10 | 16 | 18 |
| Prothonotary Warbler | -- | -- | 2 | -- | 7 | 1 |
| Swainson's Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 3 |
| Tennessee Warbler | 3 | 4 | -- | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| Nashville Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | -- | 1 | 3 |
| Kentucky Warbler | 37 | 17 | 25 | 24 | 83 | 22 |
| Common Yellowthroat | 125 | 67 | 98 | 67 | 174 | 75 |
| Hooded Warbler | 179 | 51 | 47 | 41 | 73 | 88 |
| American Redstart | 19 | 8 | 1 | 5 | 50 | 7 |
| Cape May Warbler | 1 | -- | -- | 1 | -- | -- |
| Cerulean Warbler | 6 | -- | 1 | 3 | 32 | 2 |
| Northern Parula | 25 | 16 | 35 | 6 | 73 | 12 |
| Magnolia Warbler | 5 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 1 |
| Bay-breasted Warbler | -- | -- | 2 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Blackburnian Warbler | 2 | -- | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 |
| Yellow Warbler | 11 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 24 | 5 |
| Chestnut-sided Warbler | 6 | -- | 3 | 2 | -- | 5 |
| Blackpoll Warbler | -- | 11 | 5 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
| Palm Warbler | 4 | 3 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Pine Warbler | 24 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 10 | 11 |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler | 39 | 4 | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| Yellow-throated Warbler | 55 | 35 | 35 | 17 | 50 | 9 |
| Prairie Warbler | 103 | 58 | 45 | 34 | 34 | 85 |
| Black-throated Green Warbler | 19 | 2 | 6 | 4 | -- | 8 |
| Canada Warbler | 1 | -- | 1 | 1 | -- | -- |
| Wilson's Warbler | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Yellow-breasted Chat | 105 | 53 | 60 | 66 | 89 | 59 |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
| Eastern Towhee | 100 | 33 | 77 | 64 | 149 | 77 |
| Chipping Sparrow | 156 | 56 | 140 | 64 | 165 | 30 |
| Field Sparrow | 107 | 85 | 105 | 69 | 134 | 67 |
| Savannah Sparrow | 10 | 2 | 4 | -- | 1 | 2 |
| Grasshopper Sparrow | 11 | 8 | 15 | 8 | 20 | 2 |
| Henslow's Sparrow | -- | 1 | 6 | -- | -- | 7 |
| Song Sparrow | 149 | 60 | 87 | 60 | 135 | 78 |
| Swamp Sparrow | 1 | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |
| White-throated Sparrow | 14 | -- | -- | -- | -- | 1 |
| Summer Tanager | 5 | 14 | 63 | 35 | 88 | 20 |
| Scarlet Tanager | 61 | 41 | 36 | 9 | 33 | 29 |
| Northern Cardinal | 214 | 127 | 281 | 163 | 339 | 162 |
| Rose-breasted Grosbeak | 14 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 5 |
| Blue Grosbeak | 30 | 30 | 56 | 18 | 42 | 9 |
| Indigo Bunting | 306 | 303 | 500 | 218 | 459 | 153 |
| Dickcissel | -- | 1 | 17 | 1 | 8 | 1 |
| Bobolink | 2 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 22 | -- |
| Red-winged Blackbird | 381 | 180 | 415 | 145 | 511 | 303 |
| Eastern Meadowlark | 299 | 216 | 418 | 97 | 324 | 148 |
| Common Grackle | 59 | 71 | 191 | 114 | 201 | 279 |
| Brown-headed Cowbird | 74 | 40 | 137 | 106 | 231 | 123 |
| Orchard Oriole | 28 | 17 | 53 | 24 | 65 | 13 |
| Baltimore Oriole | 4 | -- | 1 | -- | 2 | 9 |
| House Finch | 33 | 14 | 19 | 9 | 61 | 32 |
| American Goldfinch | 109 | 16 | 51 | 66 | 98 | 71 |
| House Sparrow | 56 | 41 | 102 | 35 | 70 | 45 |
| Total Individuals | 7091 | 3990 | 7963 | 4209 | 12332 | 5658 |
| Total Species | 128 | 116 | 135 | 107 | 128 | 120 |
| County | Cumberland, TN | Bledsoe, TN | White, TN | Wayne, KY | Putnam, TN | Pulaski, KY |
* Observers on the Cumberland Co., TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Bruce F. Anderson |
| Nan E. Beesley |
| John Cyrus |
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Annell S. Fields |
| Edmund K. LeGrand, compiler |
| Thomas M. Saya |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
* Observers on the Bledsoe County, TN, Spring BirdBlitz:
| Janie C. Finch |
| Ronald D. Hoff |
| Edmund K. LeGrand, compiler |
| Dolly Ann Myers |
| Thomas M. Saya |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
* Observers on the White County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Daniel L. Combs |
| Douglas A. Downs, compiler |
| Judy C. Fuson |
| Peggy B. Huffstetler |
| Edmund K. LeGrand |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Michelle S. O'Rourke |
| Thomas M. Saya |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
| Carol D. Williams |
* Observers on the Wayne Co., KY, Spring BirdBlitz:
| Granville Cox |
| Roseanna M. Denton, compiler |
| C. Gay Hodges |
| Arlene M. Morton |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
* Observers on the Putnam County, TN, Spring Bird Count:
| Douglas A. Downs |
| Janie C. Finch, compiler |
| Richard C. Finch (FW) |
| Judy C. Fuson |
| Michael J. Hawkins |
| Linda Henderson |
| Merritt Ireland |
| Nancy S. Layzer |
| Edmund K. LeGrand |
| Michael P. O'Rourke |
| Michelle S. O'Rourke (FW) |
| Susan E. Pirolo |
| Thomas M. Saya |
| Richard W. Simmers, Jr. |
| Stephen J. Stedman |
| Winston A. Walden |
| Carol D. Williams |
* Observers on the Pulaski County, KY, Spring Bird Count:
| Granville Cox |
| Thelma Cox |
| Roseanna M. Denton, compiler |
| C. Gay Hodges |
| Laura Kamperman |
| Arlene M. Morton |
| Laura Obiso |
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