1/9/12

2011 Caroline County Christmas Count totals 92 species including 5 unusual birds




The black-headed grosbeak might be considered to be the best bird we've ever seen on the count.   It was discovered in a yard on Market Street, Denton during the Christmas count and was seen by many birders from around the state.   It left after the bird club bought sunflower seeds and a squirrel guard for the feeder.

Two rose-breasted grosbeaks were reported near Greensboro and while it's very rare to see one, seeing two of them has to be very unusual.

We were also fortunate to get a red-headed woodpecker, Lapland longspur & Virginia rail--can't expect to do that every year.  

We got 92 species and that's pretty good.   We had 19 observers.  In 1954 they had 18 observers and with similar weather conditions they only got 70 birds.

Steve Westre, Caroline County Christmas Count Coordinator



Pied-billed Grebe 1
D C Cormorant 8
Great Blue Heron 17
Black Vulture 80
Turkey Vulture 261
Snow Goose 1490
* Snow Goose (blue form)                    2
Canada Goose 2886
Tundra Swan 103
Wood Duck 4
Black Duck 10
Mallard 214
Wigeon 1
Blue-winged Teal 3
Pintail 2
Ring-necked Duck 48
Bufflehead 7
Common Merganser 6
Hooded Merganser 10
Bald Eagle, ad 18
Bald Eagle, im 6
Northern Harrier 6
Sharp-shinned Hawk 3
Cooper's Hawk 10
Accipiter sp. 1
Red-shouldered Hawk 8
Red-tailed Hawk 25
Am. Kestrel 10
Wild Turkey 35
N. Bobwhite 6
Va Rail 1
Am. Coot 6
Killdeer 66
Wilson Snipe's 10
Am. Woodcock 2
Ring-billed Gull 1901
Herring Gull 12
Rock Pigeon 294
Mourning Dove 167
Eastern Screech-Owl 12
Great Horned Owl 8
Barred Owl 13
Belted Kingfisher 9
Red-bellied Woodpecker 55
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 10
Downy Woodpecker 34
Hairy Woodpecker 7
Northern Flicker 64
Red-headed Woodpecker                    1
Pileated Woodpecker 14
Eastern Phoebe 2
Blue Jay 130
American Crow 349
Fish Crow 11
Horned Lark 571
Carolina Chickadee 156
Tufted Titmouse 132
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Brown Creeper 13
Carolina Wren 79
Winter Wren 20
Golden-crowned Kinglet 31
Ruby-crowned Kinglet 5
Eastern Bluebird 128
Hermit Thrush 34
American Robin 1700
N. Mockingbird 77
Brown Thrasher 5
Euro Starling 2251
Am. Pipit 77
Cedar Waxwing 188
Yellow rumped Warbler 42
Chipping Sparrow 36
Field Sparrow 35
Savannah Sparrow 13
Fox Sparrow 4
Song Sparrow 108
Swamp Sparrow 10
White-throated Sparrow 485
White-crowned Sparrow 1
Dark-eyed Junco 700
N. Cardinal 115
Towhee 16
Red-winged Blackbird 2083
E. Meadowlark 31
Rusty Blackbird 36
Common Grackle 5604
Brown-headed Cowbird 245
*blackbird sp. 360
Purple Finch 1
House Finch 166
Am. Goldfinch  75
Rose-breasted Grosbeak                    2
Black-headed Grosbeak 1
House Sparrow 270
Lapland Longspur 1

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