As the National Audubon Society CBC website won't be accessible for several
more weeks, I thought I'd post the results of the most recent Chesapeake Bay
CBC here. Thanks to all who sent in Count Week birds, as well as to the
counters. The tallies are below, with the previous 9 years in parentheses
following.
In addition to the birds, a Harbor Seal fed on Rockfish (Striped Bass)
between islands 3 and 4.
Common Loon 72 (29, 34, 5, 101, 26, 6, 28, 23, 17)
Red-throated Loon 622 (2, 8, 67, 661, 17, 158, 51, 54) ALL-TIME HIGH
Pacific Loon 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
Horned Grebe 29 (1, 4, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5) ALL-TIME HIGH
Red-necked Grebe 0 (0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Northern Gannet 256 (216, 9, 218, 66, 26, 87, 220, 13,000+, 860)
Brown Pelican 2 (3, 0, 0, 15, 0, 2, 1, 15, 34)
Great Cormorant 39 (46, 71, 39, 18, 36, 27, 42, 31, 28)
Double-crested Cormorant 11 (1, 4, 6, 4, 4, 3, 1, 3, 3) ALL-TIME HIGH (!)
Great Blue Heron 0 (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3)
Cattle Egret 1 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) NEW TO COUNT; VERY LATE
Tundra Swan 0 (0, 0, 0, CW, 4, 0, 0, 0)
Canada Goose 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 7, 0)
Snow Goose 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0)
Brant 0 (0, 16, 0, 2, 0, 2, 4, 0, 0)
Mallard 0 (0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3)
American Black Duck 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2, 0)
Northern Pintail 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5)
Green-winged Teal 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 4)
Common Goldeneye 0 (1, 6, 2, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 1)
Bufflehead 4 (12, 5, 1, 0, 0, 1, 5, 0, 7)
Ring-necked Duck 0 (0, 0, CW, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Greater Scaup 2 (2, 5, 0, 5, 0, 25, 1, 0, 1)
Lesser Scaup 13 (0, 0, CW, 0, 0, 7, 0, 1, 9)
scaup species 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 5)
Ruddy Duck 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3, 0, 0)
Common Merganser 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
Red-breasted Merganser 110 (124, 154, 614, 99, 380, 415, 820, 59+, 690)
Common Eider 6= 3 females, 3 imm males (0, 0, 1, 24, 0, 1, 2, 0, 1)
King Eider 1 ad. male (0, 0, 0, 7, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1) STUNNING!
Harlequin Duck 2= 1 female, 1 male (1, 0, 3, 4, 0, 0, 3, 2, 1)
Long-tailed Duck 84 (194, 210, 68, 41, 42, 26, 7, 2, 14) GOOD RECENT COUNT
Surf Scoter 1021 (433, 510, 1039, 601, 720, 495, 770, 3900+, 2120)
White-winged Scoter 32 (29, 205, 22, 14, 3, 7, 54, 24, 38)
Black Scoter 215 (56, 42, 54, 722, 10, 47, 2, 287+, 1975)
scoter sp. 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 3400+, 0)
Turkey Vulture 72 (1, 0, 108, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW, 0)
Black Vulture 0 (2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Red-tailed Hawk 0 (1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Peregrine Falcon 0 (0, 0, CW, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 1)
Merlin 1 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1)
Great Black-backed Gull 51 (103, 175, 44, 38, 266, 85, 20, 1250+, 350)
Lesser Black-backed Gull 1 (2, 2, CW, 0, 1, 1, 2, 30+, 12)
Yellow-legged Gull 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW, 0)
Glaucous Gull 0 (0, 0, 0, CW, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Glaucous x Herring Gull hybrid 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, CW)
Iceland Gull 0 (1, 0, 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 1, 0)
Thayer's Gull 0 (1, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW, CW)
Laughing Gull 5 (2, 0, 12, 24, 246, 48, 0, 550+, 65)
Black-tailed Gull 0 (0, 0, CW, CW, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0)
Little Gull 0 (0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 0, 0, 3, 0)
California Gull 0 (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW)
Herring Gull 235 (1124, 950, 622, 126, 1200, 2150, 70, 8900+, 2200)
Ring-billed Gull 3100 (1809, 2010, 10350, 297, 2190, 15,000, 325, 4400+,
2600)
Common (Mew) Gull 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0)
Bonaparte's Gull 3 (19, 0, 545, 2529, 277, 3200, 12400, 435, 5)
Black-headed Gull 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW, 0)
Black-legged Kittiwake 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, CW, 0)
Gull sp. 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, CW, 4000+)
Forster's Tern 0 (0, 0, 0, 1, 6, 8, 0, 0, 0)
Pomarine Jaeger 0 (0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0)
Parasitic Jaeger 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0)
American Oystercatcher 3 (12, 0, 2, 35, 2, 0, 1, 1, 1)
Killdeer 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
Sanderling 10 (0, 2, 0, 4, 2, 5, 1, 1, 4)
Least Sandpiper 0 (0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Dunlin 0 (0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Ruddy Turnstone 12 (69, 18, 1, 4, 9, 3, 9, 8)
Purple Sandpiper 66 (82, 16, 16, 9, 29, 8, 17, 26)
guillemot sp. 0 (0, 0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Rock Pigeon 1 (0, 1, 1, 0, 2, 0, 1, 2, 1)
Tree Swallow 0 (0, 0, 0, 26, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
American Pipit 1 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 0, 2)
Cedar Waxwing 0 (0, 0, CW, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
European Starling 3 (1, 0, 1, 3, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Yellow-rumped Warbler 0 (0, 0, CW, 0, 0, 0, 1, 0, 0)
Song Sparrow 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
White-throated Sparrow 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1)
Red-winged Blackbird 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 12, 0, CW, 6)
Brown-headed Cowbird 0 (0, 0, 0, 0, 5, 0, 0, 0, 15)
American Goldfinch 1 (0, 0, 2, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
redpoll sp. 1 flyover (0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0) NEW TO COUNT; 5 Commons on
28th here
Snow Bunting 0 (0, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0)
Happy New Year to all,
Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA
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