The Louisville Christmas Bird Count was on Sunday, December 18. We had 87 species and 34 participants. The area included parts of Jefferson County and Oldham County in Kentucky and parts of southern Indiana. Weather - temperature was between 28 and 40 degrees with partly cloudy skies. A list of birds follows. Snow goose - 17 Canada Goose - 1514 Mute swans - 3 Tundra Swan - 2 Wood Duck - 35 Gadwall - 66 A. Wigeon - 19 Black Duck - 13 Mallard - 870 Shoveler - 1 Green-wg Teal - 8 Canvasback - 9 Redhead - 7 Ring-necked Duck - 591 Greater Scaup - 1 Lesser Scaup - 13 Bufflehead - 9 Hooded Merganser - 28 Pied-b. Grebe - 16 D.-cr. Cormorant - 39 Great Blue Heron - 52 Blk-cr. Night -Heron - 5 Black Vulture - 20 Turkey Vulture - 38 Northern Harrier - 3 Sharp-sh. Hawk - 4 Cooper's Hawk - 14 Accipiter Species - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 24 Red-tailed Hawk - 44 A. Kestrel 14 A. Coot - 8 Killdeer - 16 Ring-billed Gull - 397 Herring Gull - 1 Rock Pigeon - 1305 Mourning Dove - 579 E. Screech Owl - 6 Great Horned Owl - 8 Short-eared Owl - 1 Hummingbird - 1 Species undetermined at this time. B. Kingfisher - 18 Red-bel. Woodpecker - 58 Yel.-bellied Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 88 Hairy Woodpecker - 9 N. Flicker - 33 Pileated Woodpecker - 10 Eastern Phoebe-2 Blue Jay - 205 A. Crow - 262 Horned Lark - 76 Carolina chickadee - 241 Tufted Titmouse - 88 Red-br. Nuthatch - 3 White-br. Nuthatch - 29 Brown Creeper - 5 Carolina Wren - 98 Winter Wren - 3 Golden-cr. Kinglet - 16 Ruby-cr. Kinglet - 5 E. Bluebird - 50 Hermit Thrush - 1 A, robin - 3288 N. Mockingbird - 72 E. Starling - 40,137 American Pipit - 4 Cedar Waxwing - 153 Yel-rumped Warbler - 24 E. Towhee - 10 Am. Tree Sparrow - 9 Chipping Sparrow - 2 Field Sparrow - 33 Song sparrow - 254 Swamp Sparrow - 10 White-thr. Sparrow - 228 White-cr. Sparrow - 2 Dark-eyed Junco - 289 N. Cardinal - 362 Red-wg. Blackbird - 29 E. Meadowlark - 29 Rusty Blackbird - 81 C. Grackle - 394 Brown-headed Cowbird 70 Purple Finch - 6 House Finch - 265 A. Goldfinch 276 House Sparrow - 273 Thanks to all who took part in our count. Pat Bell Louisville ================NOTES TO SUBSCRIBERS============== The BIRDKY Mailing List requires you to sign your messages with first & last name, city, & state abbreviation. -------------------------------------------------- To post to this mailing list, send e-mail to: birdky@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send e-mail to: birdky-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with 'unsubscribe' in the Subject line. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Visit the Kentucky Ornithological Society web site at http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos.htm * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * BIRDKY List Manager: Gary Ritchison, Richmond, KY E-mail: gary.ritchison@xxxxxxx