On Saturday and Sunday, birded on my home turf for the GBBC, getting out
4 times away from the house and the fifth list submitted looking hard at
my feeders. I tallied about 850 individuals and 45 species. Most all
water was frozen over with temps Sunday morning at 5:30 AM a frigid 4
degrees F. But that's all relative; next weekend through Mach 3 Jean and
I will spend the week at 68 degrees North latitude in Saariselka Finland
cross country skiing and hoping for Siberian jay and Siberian tit and
perhaps a ptarmigan or grouse...
As usual, I missed some that I expected like gb heron, red-shouldered
hawk, brown creeper, yr warbler, fox sparrow and purple finch.
Otherwise, was very happy with richness of count. For whatever reason,
one of my lists didn't get included yet-- one that included rn duck and
common raven but I'll get those in later today. It was a great count and
the highlight for me was the count of 17 towhees near the elementary
school in St Louis.
Canada Goose 170
Mallard 5
Ring-necked duck 1
Hooded Merganser 1
Black Vulture 13
Turkey Vulture 7
Red-tailed Hawk 6
Killdeer 1
Rock Pigeon 5
Mourning Dove 60
Barred Owl 2
Red-headed Woodpecker 4
Red-bellied Woodpecker 11
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 2
Downy Woodpecker 5
Hairy Woodpecker 2
Northern Flicker 9
Pileated Woodpecker 2
Blue Jay 3
American Crow 10
Common Raven 1
Carolina Chickadee 22
Tufted Titmouse 27
Red-breasted Nuthatch 3
White-breasted Nuthatch 16
Carolina Wren 23
Golden-crowned Kinglet 2
Eastern Bluebird 9
Hermit Thrush 1
American Robin 1
Northern Mockingbird 2
Brown Thrasher 1
European Starling 117
Cedar Waxwing 10
Eastern Towhee 17
Field Sparrow 31
Song Sparrow 33
White-throated Sparrow 43
White-crowned Sparrow 7
Dark-eyed Junco 80
Northern Cardinal 23
Red-winged Blackbird 17
House Finch 15
American Goldfinch 47
House Sparrow 12
Craig Tufts
Southwestern Loudoun County
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