[va-bird] Loudoun County Christmas Count 12/29/02

Myself, Mary Alice and Allen Hart did one section of Sector 1 on the Loudoun
county count yesterday 12/29.  Our section consisted of the Beaverdam
Resevoir area including Resevoir Road on the west, Alford and Mt. Hope roads
on the east and Brambleton Golf Course.  We had no access to the golf couse
though, as it was "Closed due to Adverse Conditions".  Still we had an
excellent day of birding.  We started with owling at 0530 and continued till
1630.
In addition to the following list, we had 1 Domestic Goose, 1 Hybrid Canada
x ? and 1 Canada goose that was about 1/2 the size of the normal Canada.
Following is our list and numbers:

Horned Grebe  1
Pied billed Grebe  1
Great Blue Heron  2
Turkey Vulture  3
Canada Goose  5254
Gadwall  3
American Black Duck  27
Mallard  236
Ring necked Duck  31
Hooded Merganser  14
Common Merganser  23
Bald Eagle  2  (1 Adult and 1 Immature)
Sharp shinned Hawk  2
Cooper's Hawk  2
Red shouldered Hawk  9
Red tailed Hawk  5
Northern Bobwhite  1
Ring billed Gull  156
Herring Gull  16
Great Black Backed Gull  5
Rock Dove  11
Mourning Dove  2
Great Horned Owl  1
Barred Owl  2
Red bellied Woodpecker  6
Yellow bellied Sapsucker  1
Downy Woodpecker  2
Hairy Woodpecker  1
Northern Flicker  7
Pileated Woodpecker  1
Blue Jay  224
American Crow  129
Fish Crow  4
Carolina Chickadee  19
Tufted Titmouse  8
White breasted Nuthatch  3
Carolina Wren  12
Golden crowned Kinglet  8
Eastern Bluebird  13
American Robin  529
Northern Mockingbird  14
European Starling  245
Yellow rumped Warbler  48
Eastern Towhee  1
Field Sparrow  7
Song Sparrow  23
Swamp Sparrow  1
White throated Sparrow  42
White crowned Sparrow  1
Dark eyed Junco  28
Northern Cardinal  44
Red winged Blackbird  1
Common Grackle  2
House Finch  1
American Goldfinch  2

Glenn Koppel, Mary Alice Koeneke and Allen Hart
koppel@xxxxxxxxx
Centreville, VA 20120-2901


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