held December 19, 2015 - THANKS ROB
Hi everyone
Here are the results of our 22nd annual count held Sat Dec 19. A special thank you to Allan Harris and Nick Escott who drove our new Hwy 17 corduroy road to participate.
We had 13 field observers and 6 feeder watchers this year.
Thirty two species were observed which is bang on our long term average . The song sparrow was a new species for our count. See you next year on Dec 17.
Birds observed:
19 common goldeneye
3 common merganser
8 ruffed grouse
15 bald eagle
1 red tailed hawk
7 herring gull
271 rock pigeon
13 downy woodpecker
21 hairy woodpecker
1 three toed woodpecker
3 black backed woodpecker
3 pileated woodpecker
17 gray jay
76 blue jay
50 crow
485 raven
271 black-capped chickadee
14 boreal chickadee
69 red breasted nuthatch
1 robin
59 starling
2 song sparrow
1 rusty blackbird
1 grackle
233 pine grosbeak
6 purple finch
5 white-winged crossbill
310 common redpoll
36 pine siskin
9 american goldfinch
145 evening grosbeak
13 house sparrow
Mammals observed:
22 red squirrel
1 red fox
2 deer
2 snowshoe hare
2 muskrat
1 beaver
1 mink(new to the count)
