Hi,
We held the Land Between the Lakes CBC last Saturday, Dec. 17th. It was a wacky
weather day, to say the least! Temps rising to about 70 degrees, but windy and
stormy, leading up to an evening temperature drop of over 40 degrees! Some
participants felt that the wind made it hard to find songbirds, and hard to
make out ducks on the water. But we still managed to tally 95 species! There's
definitely some interesting stuff in here ... a very high count of eagles, and
some unusual species as you'll see below. There were a few species we typically
see but missed this year -- American Wigeon, Hermit Thrush, and House Sparrow
among them. But all in all, it was a great day! Thanks to all of our 21
participants for being a part of it! Here is the tally:
Snow Goose - 83 (Very high count!)Canada Goose - 334Gadwall -1220Mallard -
775Northern Shoveler - 28Green-winged Teal - 41Canvasback - 20Ring-necked Duck
- 41Greater Scaup - 10Lesser Scaup - 501 (Low count)Surf Scoter - 1 (Unusual
species -- photo taken by Hap Chambers)Bufflehead - 89 Common Goldeneye -
248Hooded Merganser - 15 (Low count)Red-breasted Merganser - 2Ruddy Duck - 10
(Low count)Wild Turkey - 16Common Loon - 11Pied-billed Grebe - 73Horned Grebe -
63Double-crested Cormorant - 545American White Pelican - 144Black-crowned Night
Heron - 9 (Unusual for this season -- photo taken by Hap Chambers)Great Blue
Heron - 77Black Vulture - 26Turkey Vulture - 27Bald Eagle - 80 (Highest count
ever!)Sharp-shinned Hawk - 1Red-shouldered Hawk - 7Red-tailed Hawk - 10American
Kestrel - 4Peregrine Falcon - 1American Coot - 85 (Low count)Sandhill Crane -
CW (Seen count week, but not on count day)Killdeer - 67Least Sandpiper -
11Dunlin - 2Common Snipe - 23 (High count)Bonaparte's Gull - 501Ring-billed
Gull - 609Herring Gull - 81Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1Forster's Tern - 14Rock
Pigeon - 64Mourning Dove - 23 (Low count)Great Horned Owl - 1Barred Owl -
2Belted Kingfisher - 12Red-headed Woodpecker - 36Red-bellied Woodpecker -
45Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 8Downy Woodpecker - 29Hairy Woodpecker - 6Northern
Flicker - 37Pileated Woodpecker - 22Eastern Phoebe - 5Blue Jay - 126American
Crow - 160Fish Crow - 1Carolina Chickadee - 92Tufted Titmouse - 81Red-breasted
Nuthatch - 7White-breasted Nuthatch - 35Brown Creeper - 2Carolina Wren -
32Winter Wren - 1Golden-crowned Kinglet - 19Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 4Eastern
Bluebird - 32 (Fairly low count)American Robin - 24Northern Mockingbird -
2Brown Thrasher - 1European Starling - 228Cedar Waxwing - 385Yellow-rumped
Warbler - 13 (Fairly low count)Pine Warbler - 3Eastern Towhee - 21American
Tree Sparrow - 1Chipping Sparrow - 5Field Sparrow - 7Fox Sparrow - 1Song
Sparrow - 14Swamp Sparrow - 5White-throated Sparrow - 43 (Low
count)White-crowned Sparrow - 3Dark-eyed Junco - 183 (Low count)Northern
Cardinal - 80 (Low count)Red-winged Blackbird - 196Eastern Meadowlark -
40Rusty Blackbird - 1Common Grackle - 138Brown-headed Cowbird - 4Purple Finch -
12House Finch - 5American Goldfinch - 70
-- Aviva YasgurWoodlands Nature Station, Land Between the LakesTrigg/Lyon
Counties
