January 19 program on Birds of Alaska and much more

A program about Alaska will be presented by our own Wayne Bell and Les Coble of the Talbot Bird Club at  7:30 PM, Caroline County Public Library, 100 Market St., Denton.  If you have never seen a program by either Wayne or Les, now is your chance! Photos and stories galore, including what happened to Wayne's camera!

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