More on the Christmas Bird Count

Toone and Doug Lapham generously donated their house for the Audubon birders to stay in.  The first boat on Sundays is at 8:30, which means a lot of the great birding has already come and gone, so having them stay on Dewees was a great way to get a jump start on the day.  Thanks, Doug and Toone!

You have already heard about the owling in the pre-dawn hours, but the rest of the day went well, despite the cold.  We saw quite a few birds… 88 species, compared to the 74 we saw last year.

Species                        2008-9              2009-10
Wood Duck                                                  2
American Wigeon          6                          1
Mottled Duck                  6                          3
Green-winged Teal                                     1
Scaup spp.                                                 420
Bufflehead                      40                        5
Hooded Merganser          12                   100
Red-breasted Merganser                         6
Common Loon                   10                    5
Pied-billed Grebe               11                   25
Horned Grebe                     1                      2
Northern Gannet                                        1
Brown Pelican                    24                   50
Double-crested Cormorant          55      250
Anhinga                                      1                1
Great Blue Heron                    20            25
Great Egret                               35             75
Snowy Egret                             15             20
Little Blue Heron                      7              10
Tricolored Heron                     5               10
Black-crowned Night-Heron     13         15
White Ibis                                 1               200
Wood Stork                              1                  2
Turkey Vulture                                            5
Osprey                                       1                  3
Bald Eagle                                 1                 4
Northern Harrier                     5                5
Sharp-shinned Hawk               2               1
Cooper’s Hawk                          2               2
Red-tailed Hawk                       3               1
American Kestrel                                       1
Clapper Rail                              20             3
Sora                                                1             0
Common Moorhen                     3             0
Black-bellied Plover                   51           60
Semipalmated Plover                 55         350
Piping Plover                                               1
Killdeer                                          8             5
American Oystercatcher              7            7
Greater Yellowlegs                       25         15
Willet                                              18            1
Ruddy Turnstone                         8              5
Sanderling                                  12             20
Western Sandpiper                    140          0
Least Sandpiper                           33           0
Dunlin                                           190         250
peep spp.                                                     250
Short-billed Dowitcher                235        5
Laughing Gull                               8              3
Ring-billed Gull                            20          10
Herring Gull                                   3             2
Great Black-backed Gull                             6
Forster’s Tern                                26         25
Mourning Dove                             23         10
Common Ground-Dove                 7         30
Eastern Screech-Owl                      2          3
Great Horned Owl                           1          4
Belted Kingfisher                             6        40
Red-bellied Woodpecker                           2
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker                           1
Downy Woodpecker                                    2
Hairy Woodpecker                                       1
Northern Flicker                               15      20
Eastern Phoebe                                  1         2
Loggerhead Shrike                             1         1
Blue-headed Vireo                                        1
Blue Jay                                            18         6
American Crow                                             1
Tree Swallow                                               65
Carolina Chickadee                                      2
Carolina Wren                                  11         3
Golden-crowned Kinglet                  1         4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet                   35         50
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher                     1           0
Eastern Bluebird
Hermit Thrush                                  3          11
Gray Catbird                                      2           2
Northern Mockingbird                    7            6
Brown Thrasher                                 1          0
European Starling                                          1
Orange-crowned Warbler                             1
Yellow-rumped Warbler                826    832
Pine Warbler                                                  1
Palm Warbler                                    1            0
Black-and-White Warbler                             1
Common Yellowthroat                    10          0
Eastern Towhee                                10          2
Savannah Sparrow                           14         27
Sharp-tailed Sparrow spp.                           1
Song Sparrow                                    38        20
Swamp Sparrow                                 2          1
White-throated Sparrow                            40
Northern Cardinal                             50      20
Red-winged Blackbird                      140    10
Eastern Meadowlark                         4
Common Grackle                                           1
Boat-tailed Grackle                             7         1
House Finch                                         1         6
House Sparrow                                   1          0

Species Totals                                      74    88

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