Good December weather helped our cause today, as twelve birders, including
an eager twelve-year-old, turned up 70 species, which is the second best in
our thirty-three-year history. The only big misses were red-headed
woodpeckers. No screech-owls or thrashers, either.
Highlights included 4 cackling geese (new for this count and new for our
county ever), 7 (!!) shrikes, 1 pipit, and a few waterfowl in our landlocked
county.
Observers were John Brittain, Tom Durbin, Carol Friedman, Dan Givens, Carol
Huber, Janet Kistler, Steve Kistler (compiler), Kathy Nichols, Rickey Shive,
Mitch Sturgeon, and Neil and Naomi Troyer.
Steve Kistler
Hart Co, KY
SPECIES
TOTAL
Cackling Goose
4
Canada Goose
64
Wood Duck
6
American Black Duck
1
Mallard
22
Hooded Merganser
2
Wild Turkey
24
Northern Bobwhite
3
Pied-billed Grebe
1
Great Blue Heron
10
Black Vulture
40
Turkey Vulture
235
Bald Eagle
1
Northern Harrier
2
Sharp-shinned Hawk
2
Cooper's Hawk
1
Red-shouldered Hawk
5
Red-tailed Hawk
16
American Kestrel
36
Sandhill Crane
66
Killdeer
8
Rock Pigeon
11
Eurasian Collared-Dove
2
Mourning Dove
380
Great Horned Owl
2
Barred Owl
3
Belted Kingfisher
7
Red-bellied Woodpecker
38
Yellow-bellied Sapsucker
3
Downy Woodpecker
22
Hairy Woodpecker
3
Northern Flicker
9
Pileated Woodpecker
5
Eastern Phoebe
3
Loggerhead Shrike
7
Blue Jay
80
American Crow
172
Horned Lark
4
Carolina Chickadee
81
Tufted Titmouse
72
White-breasted Nuthatch
29
Brown Creeper
5
Carolina Wren
38
Winter Wren
2
Golden-crowned Kinglet
6
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
3
Eastern Bluebird
91
Hermit Thrush
3
American Robin
57
Northern Mockingbird
24
American Pipit
1
European Starling
294
Cedar Waxwing
25
Yellow-rumped Warbler
38
Eastern Towhee
11
Field Sparrow
44
Savannah Sparrow
2
Fox Sparrow
3
Song Sparrow
153
Swamp Sparrow
15
White-throated Sparrow
35
White-crowned Sparrow
16
Dark-eyed Junco
83
Northern Cardinal
105
Red-winged Blackbird
336
Eastern Meadowlark
49
Brown-headed Cowbird
4
House Finch
74
American Goldfinch
75
House Sparrow
15
