Hello all, If anyone wants to help with next Wednesday's (Dec 29th) New Woodstock-Southern Highlands CBC please email me at above email--this count is largely in SW Madison County--not too far away. I could sill use a party or two.
With 3 count weeks birds we recorded 73 species on the Dec 18th Cortland CBC-- for the last 10 years this is about average to a little above average. The misses were: RN Pheasant, Snow Goose, Lapland Longspur, N. Harrier, and Scaup, Ring-necked or even Common Loon. The Pheasant is the biggest miss. The highlights for Cortland CBC were: WOOD DUCK 2 (Factory Brook) Redheads: 3 (south end of Skan. Lake) AMERICAN COOT : 1 (south end of Skan. Lake) GOLDEN EAGLE (seen in Sempronoius by Tim Lenz and Chris Wood) Bald Eagle (seen in Homer by Bobbie Monroe and party; first time we've had both eagles on the day of the count) NORTHERN GOSHAWK: 2 (1 adult Atwood Rd south of Lake Como seen by Jim Barry and Chad Devoe, and Judy Read; and 1 near south end of Skan. Lake) MERLIN : cw American Kestrel : 3 Rough-legged Hawk: 10 GB Heron: 4 SAW-WHET OWL: 2 LONG-EARED OWL: 1 Barred Owl: 3 Great-horned Owl: 3 Eastern-screech Owl: 5 RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET (Lake Como seen well by Judy Read) YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (Groton Cemetery Scanlon, Kelling and Rosenberg): N. Flickers 4 Belted Kingfisher: 3; NORTHERN SHRIKE: 3 (scattered) COMMON RAVEN: 17 (high count) CAROLINA WREN (our house in Scott; only one on count) NORTHERN MOCKINGBIRD: 3 (city of Cortland) Eastern Bluebirds 20+ American Robins 25+ SWAMP SPARROW (Mclean seen by Peter Harrity's party) RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD : 1 (Homer) Brown-headed Cowbird: 32 EVENING GROSBEAK: 27 (24 at feeders at Hovel Chalet on corner of Salt and Fillmore; 2 others at Eaton Rd and 1 other via Lenz and Wood Sempronius); COMMON REDPOLL: 4 (2 at Lake Como and 2 others reported by Bobbi Monroe Homer ) PINE SISKIN: 14 scattered about Purple Finch: 9 RED CROSSBILL: cw (count week) Lastly, it seems like one of the best years in a while for Tree Sparrow. Several flocks of 20+ can be found in weedy fields. We might have set a count high for this species. cheers, Happy Holidays, and a big thanks to everyone that helped, Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------- mail2web - Check your email from the web at http://link.mail2web.com/mail2web -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
