Greetings All:
Sixteen birders braved unseasonably mild conditions and completed the
Lubbock County CBC yesterday, 19 December 2015. Sightings of rarities are
attributed to teams in the list and teams were as follows (leaders in
bold) Team 1 - Northeast Quarter - *Anthony Hewetson*; Team 2 - V8 Ranch,
Buffalo Springs Lake, Ransom Lake - *Justin Bosler*, Peter Keyel; Team 3 -
South Side of the Sky - *Andrew Kasner*, Niler Pyeatt; Team 4 - Northwest
Quarter - *Charles Grair*; Team 5 - Inside the Loop, West - *Jason Hunt*;
Team 6 - Inside the Loop, East - Jan Jannett, Liam McGuire, *William Wenthe*,
Janice Whittington; Team 7 - The Canyon Lakes - D.D. Currie, Jackie
Driskill, Laurie Foss, Ellen Hildebrandt, *Phillip Kite*, Dell Little. So
far as I can tell we had 130 species on count day (the record is 141) and
missed at least three count week species (American White Pelican, Snowy
Egret, Golden-crowned Kinglet) With no further ado, the list:
1 *Greater White-fronted Goose *- Team 1
14 Snow Geese
1 *Ross's Goose* - Team 3
14, 315 Cackling Geese
5,653 Canada Geese
2,850 'white-cheeked' geese
23 *Wood Ducks* - 10 from Team 2, 6 from Team 5, 5 from Team 6, 2 from Team
7
89 Gadwalls
251 American Wigeons
652 Mallards
5 *Blue-winged Teals* - 1 from Team 1, 4 from Team 3
384 Northern Shovelers
19 Northern Pintails
72 Green-winged Teals
10 *Canvasbacks* - Team 1
4 *Redheads* - 2 from Team 1, 2 from Team 2
65 Ring-necked Ducks
37 Lesser Scaups
30 Buffleheads
2 *Common Goldeneyes* - 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 2
31 Hooded Mergansers
81 Ruddy Ducks
4 *Scaled Quails* - Team 1
48 Northern Bobwhites
5 *Ring-necked Pheasants* - 2 from Team 1, 3 from Team 4
34 Wild Turkeys
89 Pied-billed Grebes
2 *Eared Grebes* - Team 1
131 Double-crested Cormorants
23 Great Blue Herons
1 *Great Egret* - Team 5
9 Black-crowned Night Herons
2 *Ospreys *- Team 7
20 Northern Harriers
15 Sharp-shinned Hawk
7 Cooper's Hawk
72 Red-tailed Hawks
1 *Rough-legged Hawk* - Team 4
10 Ferruginous Hawks
1 *Golden Eagle* - Team 1
4* Soras* - 1 from Team 2, 3 from Team 7
1 *Virginia Rail* - Team 7
319 American Coots
17 Sandhill Cranes
1 *American Avocet - First Ever for the Count* - Team 5
33 Killdeers
1 *Solitary Sandpiper *- Team 1
1* Greater Yellowlegs* - Team 5
1 *Least Sandpiper* - Team 1
4 *Long-billed Dowitchers* - Team 1
6 Wilson's Snipes
211 Ring-billed Gulls
3,905 Rock Pigeons
1,118 Eurasian Collared Doves
487 White-winged Doves
950 Mourning Doves
2 Greater Roadrunners
7 Barn Owls
1 Eastern Screech Owl
7 Great Horned Owls
29 Burrowing Owls
1 *Rufous Hummingbird* - Team 1
20 Belted Kingfishers
11 Golden-fronted Woodpeckers
1 *Red-bellied Woodpecker* - Team 2
13 *Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers* - 4 from Team 1, 4 from Team 2, 2 from Team
6, 3 from Team 7
2 *Downy Woodpeckers *- 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 5
28 Northern Flickers
72 American Kestrels
2 *Merlins* - 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 3
2 *Peregrine Falcons* - 1 from Team 2, 1 from Team 7
2 *Prairie Falcons* - 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 4
2 *Eastern Phoebes* - 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 2
1 Loggerhead Shrike
71 Blue Jays
307 Horned Larks
3 *Black-crested Titmice* - Team 2
1 *Verdin* - Team 2
1 *White-breasted Nuthatch* - Team 7
2 *Brown Creepers* - 1 from Team 1, 1 from Team 7
3 *Rock Wrens* - 2 From Team 2, 1 from Team Team 7
2 *Canyon Wrens* - Team 2
3 *House Wrens *- 1 from Team 1, 2 from Team 6
8 *Winter Wrens* - 1 from Team 1, 4 from Team 2, 3 from Team 7
12 Marsh Wrens
4 *Carolina Wrens* - Team 2
5 Bewick's Wrens
46 Ruby-crowned Kinglets
11 *Eastern Bluebirds *- Team 2
4 *Western Bluebirds* - Team 7
2 *Hermit Thrushes* - 1 from Team 2, 1 from Team 6
540 American Robins
14 Curve-billed Thrashers
4 Brown Thrashers
43 Northern Mockingbirds
26,143 European Starlings
3 American Pipits
55 Cedar Waxwings
120 *unidentified longspurs* - Team 4
2 *McCown's Longspurs* - Team 1
15 *Orange-crowned Warblers* - 2 from Team 1, 1 from Team 2, 1 from Team 3,
1 from Team 6, 10 from Team 7
2 *Common Yellowthroats* - Team 7
1 *Pine Warbler* - Team 7
71 Yellow-rumped Warblers
7 Spotted Towhees
6 Field Sparrows
19 Vesper Sparrows
1 *Lark Sparrow* - Team 1
1,395 Lark Buntings
49 Savannah Sparrows
63 Song Sparrows
6 Lincolns' Sparrows
1 *Swamp Sparrow *- Team 2
6 *White-throated Sparrows* - 1 from Team 1, 5 from Team 6
950 White-crowned Sparrows
181 Dark-eyed Juncos
57 Northern Cardinals
19 Pyrrhuloxias
25,057 Red-winged Blackbirds
755 unidentified meadowlarks
3 Eastern Meadowlarks
369 Western Meadowlarks
7 *Yellow-headed Blackbirds* - Team 6
1 Brewer's Blackbird
40 Common Grackles
3,224 Great-tailed Grackles
3,509 Brown-headed Cowbirds
216 House Finches
56 *Pine Siskins* - 50 from Team 2, 5 from Team 3, 1 from Team 7
2 *Lesser Goldfinches* - Team 7
359 American Goldfinches
1600 House Sparrows
Anthony 'Fat Tony' Hewetson; Lubbock
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