[va-bird] Re: Kerr Lake CBC - January 3, 2004 - "update"

 
Just so that everyone is clear on the CBC situation at Kerr Lake:

This is not a "restart" of the previous CBC in this area that was compiled 
most recently by Brian Patteson and found as many as 117 species in one count 
day, most of them in Virginia.  As near as I can determine, this would be an 
"unofficial" holiday count in any case, as new counts and restarts have to be 
registered with National Audubon Society by September of this year.  But it 
would 
seem likely that the results of the count could be printed in the CHAT, the 
journal of the Carolina Bird Club, and so it could well end up in print in some 
fashion.  If the count runs officially in the future, it will have a 
different code and a different name in the NAS database.

Virginia birders should always consider Kerr Lake a good place to bird in the 
fall and winter, and a count, even if different from past counts, is a fine 
reason to get down there and bird; the company of other birders is as great an 
incentive as the birds of past years -- Snow Buntings, a Snowy Owl one year, 
Red-necked Grebe, many Bald Eagles, Common Moorhen, Loggerhead Shrikes, 
Yellow-breasted Chat, many species of sparrow, a fine diversity of waterfowl, 
and so 
forth.

Ned Brinkley
Cape Charles, VA


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