> Here are the results for the 1st Richland Creek WMA Christmas Bird Count > 2014. The circle straddles the Trinity River bottoms bordering Freestone, > Navarro, Anderson and Henderson counties. The focus is primarily on the > reconstructed wetlands of Richland Creek WMA. We had 13 participants. 131 > species total. 27320 individual birds. > the list is below. and at the very end is an html page that shows each > species broken out into regions and what we missed. > > Thanks to all of the participants for your help as we all dealt injuries, > illnesses, locked gates and cold rainy drizzly yucky weather. More details > can be found at www.richlandcreekwma.wordpress.com. Highlights include a Black Scoter, wintering Roseate Spoonbill, Black-necked Stilt, Mottled Ducks and Purple Finch. > > Snow Goose 30 > Ross's Goose 1 > Canada Goose 28 > Wood Duck 7 > Gadwall 765 > American Wigeon 18 > Mallard 373 > Mottled Duck 2 > Blue-winged Teal 12 > Northern Shoveler 1809 > Northern Pintail 1059 > Green-winged Teal 1639 > Canvasback 41 > Redhead 32 > Ring-necked Duck 48 > Greater Scaup 1 > Lesser Scaup 130 > Black Scoter 1 > Bufflehead 12 > Ruddy Duck 931 > Common Loon 2 > Pied-billed Grebe 198 > Horned Grebe 1 > Eared Grebe 1 > Neotropic Cormorant 394 > Dble-crested Cormorant 985 > American White Pelican 98 > American Bittern 3 > Great Blue Heron 99 > Great Egret 81 > Snowy Egret 6 > Tricolored Heron 4 > Black-crowned Night-Heron 12 > White Ibis 17 > White-faced Ibis 36 > Roseate Spoonbill 1 > Black Vulture 147 > Turkey Vulture 118 > Osprey 1 > Northern Harrier 7 > Cooper's Hawk 4 > Bald Eagle 22 > Red-shouldered Hawk 10 > Red-tailed Hawk 42 > Virginia Rail 7 > Sora 10 > Common Gallinule 1 > American Coot 8993 > Black-necked Stilt 1 > Killdeer 104 > Spotted Sandpiper 2 > Greater Yellowlegs 70 > Lesser Yellowlegs 19 > Least Sandpiper 37 > Long-billed Dowitcher 418 > Wilson's Snipe 5 > Bonaparte's Gull 83 > Ring-billed Gull 163 > Herring Gull 2 > Forster's Tern 156 > Rock Pigeon 4 > Eurasian Collared-Dove 4 > Mourning Dove 123 > Great Horned Owl 3 > Barred Owl 2 > Belted Kingfisher 3 > Red-headd Woodpecker 3 > Red-bellied Woodpecker 77 > Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 20 > Downy Woodpecker 42 > Hairy Woodpecker 3 > Northern Flicker 31 > Pileated Woodpecker 4 > Crested Caracara 12 > American Kestrel 25 > Merlin 1 > Peregrine Falcon 1 > Eastern Phoebe 32 > Loggerhead Shrike 17 > White-eyed Vireo 1 > Blue Jay 128 > American Crow 142 > Cave Swallow 26 > Carolina Chickadee 178 > Tufted Titmouse 59 > White-breasted Nuthatch 2 > Brown Creeper 1 > Winter Wren 1 > Sedge Wren 8 > Marsh Wren 24 > Carolina Wren 93 > Bewick's Wren 2 > Golden-crowned Kinglet 9 > Ruby-crowned Kinglet 83 > Eastern Bluebird 122 > Hermit Thrush 11 > American Robin 31 > Brown Thrasher 4 > Northern Mockingbird 62 > European Starling 20 > American Pipit 140 > Cedar Waxwing 115 > Orange-crownd Warbler 5 > Common Yellowthroat 32 > Pine Warlber 2 > Yellow-rumped Warbler 220 > Spotted Towhee 2 > Eastern Towhee 7 > Chipping Sparrow 71 > Field Sparrow 44 > Vesper Sparrow 29 > Savannah Sparrow 269 > Fox Sparrow 7 > Song Sparrow 118 > Lincoln's Sparrow 7 > Swamp Sparrow 48 > White-throated Sparrow 328 > Harris's Sparrow 56 > White-crowned Sparrow 191 > Dark-eyed Junco 82 > Northern Cardinal 421 > Red-winged Blackbird 1648 > Eastern Meadowlark 20 > Brewer's Blackbird 505 > Common Grackle 33 > Great-tailed Grackle 1 > Brown-headed Cowbird 15 > House Finch 44 > Purple Finch 1 > American Goldfinch 98 > House Sparrow 37 > Species totalsin 131 > duck sp 67 > scaup sp 9 > cormorant sp 205 > Northern Flicker (Yellow-shafted) x > sparrow sp 103 > Eastern/Western Meadowlark 798 > blackbird sp 31 > Individual totals: 27320 > Count Week Birds > Cinnamon Teal > Common Goldeneye > Tree Swallow > Dell Little Arlington & Cross Roads, Texas "Excellent Birds" Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner