FreeLists / bristol-birds / [Bristol-Birds] Glade Spring Party D Results

["Wallace Coffey" <jwcoffey@xxxxxxxxxx>]

A team of seven birders, spent a wonderful day with beautiful weather, finding 
55 species in Area D of the Galde Spring Christmas Bird Count today, Saturday, 
3 Jan.
Rick Knight, Rack Cross, Andy Jones, Don Holt, Tom Horsch, Chris O'Bryan and 
Wallace Coffey birded our area mostly south of I-81 and south of the Middle 
Fork Hoslton River in Washington County, VA.

We enjoyed a nice evening of fellowship on Friday, gathering at the Creeper 
Trail Cottages in Damascus where we had a pizza dinner.   Andy Jones, working 
on his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota, presented a neat slide show and 
talk of his recent ornithological research in Russia.

Following the party and talk, Tom Horsch hosted us for a "Midnight Madness 
Sale" at  two stores of his Sun Dog Outfitters.  We bought two bicycles, topo 
maps computer program, outdoor clothing, shoes, handwarmers and other 
deeply-discounted merchandise.

The group spent the night before the count in two streamside cottages.  

Our bird list:

Great Blue Heron 4
American Black Duck 1
Canada Goose 26
Mallard 2
Northern Harrier 1
Cooper's Hawk 4
Sharp-shinned Hawk 2
Red-tailed Hawk 9
American Kestrel 3
Black Vulture  10
Turkey Vulture 12
Killdeer 2
Mourning Dove 96
Rock Pigeon 130 (Rock Dove)
Eastern Screech Owl  5
Belted Kingfisher 3
Northern Flicker 6
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 1
Downy Woodpecker  5
Hairy Woodpecker 4
Pileated Woodpecker 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker  10
Eastern Phoebe  2
Horned Lark 140
American Crow  52
Blue Jay 16
Common Raven 1
Carolina Chickadee  21
Eastern Tufted Titmouse  9
White-breasted Nuthatch 8
Carolina Wren  26
Winter Wren  1
Golden-crowned Kinglet   4
Ruby-crowned Kinglet  2
Eastern Bluebird  27
American Robin  1
Gray Catbird  1
Northern Mockingbird  17
Loggerhead Shrike  1
European Starling   250
Cedar  Waxwing   30
Yellow-rumped Warbler   1
Northern Cardinal  36
Dark-eyed Junco  17
Field Sparrow  15
Song Sparrow  53
Swamp Sparrow  3
White-crowned Sparrow  62
White-throated Sparrow  18
Eastern Towhee  7
Brown-headed Cowbird  2
Eastern Meadowlark  1
House Finch   48
American Goldfinch  55
House Sparrow  31

Let's go birding.....

Wallace Coffey
Bristol, TN








 

  


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