[texbirds] Re: Historical BBWD Roosts in Harris County (1977-2013 Cypress Creek CBC's)
- From: "Collins, Fred (Commissioner Pct. 3)" <Fred_Collins@xxxxxxxx>
- To: "jcazberner@xxxxxxxxx" <jcazberner@xxxxxxxxx>, Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2014 17:37:09 +0000
John,
The 1200 on the TXCY CBC was one flock at the ponds on Peek Road. I think for
several years during that period that was the only location that had the
species. Ted Eubank and Jim Morgan discovered the wintering flock there and
made those counts for a few years during that period.
Fred Collins, Director
Kleb Woods Nature Center
20303 Draper Road,Tomball TX 77377
Harris County Precinct 3
Steve Radack Commissioner
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Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 11:22 PM
To: Joseph Kennedy
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Subject: [texbirds] Re: Historical BBWD Roosts in Harris County (1977-2013
Cypress Creek CBC's)
Texbirders & Joseph K:
Thanks Joseph. for your historical perspective. I would like to add some of
thhis older data to ebird
I Will see if i can dig up some of the old figures
Using the Audubon Xmas Count website, I was able to pull up all Cypress Creek
CBC data from the current circle and the two predecessor circles
Codes: TXCY, TZ2A, TX2B
Results show that David's recent flock of 1100+ at one location is as large as
the CBC flocks of old. In the Cypress Creek Christmas Bird Count with many
observers over a large area the high count on the Katy Prairie is 1,200. I am
reluctant to enter all 1,200 at one location in ebird though since the CBC has
a 7.5 mile radius unlike david's pond so maybe this is more than one group of
birds. I searched from 1964 on but data stopped at 1977. Presumably there were
very few or no BBWD in Harris County prior to 1977 anyway--as zero were
observed in 1977. All the counts not shown below in mor recent years have zero
BBWD.
Count # # of BBWD
77 0
84 258
85 17
86 1098
87 1100
88 1
89 30
90 30
92 1200
93 1074
94 150
95 732
102 1
105 20
106 7
107 103
108 1
109 300
110 202
111 8
113
1
Joseph, Not sure how to access the early 1980's North American Birds data you
mentioned for Harris County but if some Texbirder has it, i would be glad to do
the searching. I appreciate your thoughts. I would love for the phrase
"all-time Harris County high" to mean more in ebird than it does now--by
loading more historical data. I would welcome suggestions/data sources for high
numbers of species seen together in the past.
John Berner
W.Houston/Katy
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From: Joseph Kennedy <josephkennedy36@xxxxxxxxx>
To: John Berner <jcazberner@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, February 24, 2014 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [texbirds] Record BBWD Roosts in Harris County this month (Local
interest)
Way back in the days of your also know as 1982 or maybe 1983, the black-bellied
whistling ducks had just reached Houston in numbers. I think I remember a
Christmas count of some 2,000 of the new arrivals at that time.
They roosted on an abandoned tree grown rice pond somewhere around maybe
stockdick and porter or some such a little off the usual route of getting rice
field birds in those days.
I had huge numbers of them there over a couple of winters and 2,000 would be a
low number some days. They could be disturbed by people from a house? to the
south and were almost impossible to count due to all the cover and timber.
But I know that there were at least 2,000 and probably more. A review of the
xmas count numbers or American birds would highlight the number and dates which
could be tossed into ebird for a higher record. Not sure if the xmas count
count was at the pond but often the birds were never seen anywhere else on a
days birding. The old OG maps would show the pond location too.
On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 9:31 AM, Berner Family <jcazberner@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Texbirders:
>On Feb 15, 2014 I counted 825 BBWD at Forest Park Cemetery which broke
>the previous all-time Harris County record in ebird of 800 by Mark
>Scheuerman observed twenty-one plus years previously (Nov 15, 1992).
>These birds were just sitting on the bank of a pondin midday--not
>roosting for the evning
>
>8 days later David's flock of 1,211 on Feb 23 shattered that record.
>
>interesting....
>
>John Berner
>W. Houston/Katy
>
>[texbirds] Large Roost of Black-Bellied Whistling-Ducks in South
>Houston
> * From: David Sarkozi <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> * To: TexBirds <texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> * Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 08:13:23 -0600 For the last couple of
>weeks I've been noticing a large number of Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
>coming in to roost right at sunset and leave right at sunrise from my
>neighborhood retention pond. This morning I got up and headed down
>there in time to count then.
>Even thought fog made it impossible to get a count of all the birds the
>number was much higher than I expected. I counted 1,211 Black-bellied
>Whistling-Duck leaving between 6:40 am and 7 am. By 7 am there was not
>a single BBWD left in the pond. There is a small park and parking area
>adjacent to the pond and I imagine you could see them coming as well at
>sunset. See the Google map:
>https://maps.google.com/?ll).602697,-95.35871&spn=0.005737,0.009645&t=h
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