Here are the final results from the 2003 Reelfoot Lake Christmas Bird Count that was held on Saturday, December 20, 2003. Species totals: Greater White-fronted Goose - 2109 Snow Goose - 947 (815 Snows and 132 Blues) Ross's Goose - 3 Canada Goose - 1066 Wood Duck - 38 Gadwall - 108 American Wigeon - 19 American Black Duck - 3 Mallard - 14,234 Northern Shoveler - 24 Northern Pintail - 6 Green-winged Teal - 35 Canvasback - 17 Redhead - 8 Ring-necked Duck - 120 Greater Scaup - 16 Lesser Scaup - 5283 Bufflehead - 57 Common Goldeneye - 1 Hooded Merganser - 68 Red-breasted Merganser - 3 Ruddy Duck - 4705 Wild Turkey - 1 Common Loon - 9 Pied-billed Grebe - 48 Horned Grebe - 30 American White Pelican - 1 Double-crested Cormorant - 5 Great Blue Heron - 59 Black Vulture - 6 Turkey Vulture - 1 Bald Eagle - 63 (45 adults, 18 immatures) Northern Harrier - 15 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 4 Cooper's Hawk - 2 Red-shouldered Hawk - 9 Red-tailed Hawk - 57 American Kestrel - 25 American Coot - 16 Killdeer - 995 Least Sandpiper - 26 Wilson's Snipe - 67 American Woodcock - 2 Bonaparte's Gull - 377 Ring-billed Gull - 22,248 Herring Gull - 38 Rock Pigeon - 19 Eurasian Collared-Dove - 1 Mourning Dove - 360 Eastern Screech-Owl - 3 Great Horned Owl - 6 Barred Owl - 15 Short-eared Owl - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 5 Red-headed Woodpecker - 36 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 91 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 20 Downy Woodpecker - 65 Hairy Woodpecker - 9 Northern Flicker - 89 Pileated Woodpecker - 29 Eastern Phoebe - 4 Vermillion Flycatcher - 1 Loggerhead Shrike - 15 Blue Jay - 123 American Crow - 168 Fish Crow - 1 Horned Lark - 770 Carolina Chickadee - 100 Tufted Titmouse - 73 White-breasted Nuthatch - 22 Brown Creeper - 26 Carolina Wren - 95 Winter Wren - 31 Sedge Wren - 1 Marsh Wren - 3 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 44 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 54 Eastern Bluebird - 47 Hermit Thrush - 34 American Robin - 100,336 Northern Mockingbird - 30 Brown Thrasher - 26 European Starling - 11,890 American Pipit - 129 Cedar Waxwing - 84 Orange-crowned Warbler - 2 Yellow-rumped Warbler - 2 Pine Warbler - 1 Northern Waterthrush - 1 Common Yellowthroat - 3 Eastern Towhee - 13 American Tree Sparrow - 8 Chipping Sparrow - 5 Field Sparrow - 451 Savannah Sparrow - 37 Fox Sparrow - 41 Song Sparrow - 161 Lincoln's Sparrow - 1 Swamp Sparrow - 202 White-throated Sparrow - 254 White-crowned Sparrow - 72 Dark-eyed Junco - 205 Lapland Longspur - 361 Northern Cardinal - 214 Red-winged Blackbird - 10,542 Eastern Meadowlark - 115 Western Meadowlark - 4 Rusty Blackbird - 211 Brewer's Blackbird - 1 Common Grackle - 395 Brown-headed Cowbird - 223 House Finch - 4 American Goldfinch - 54 House Sparrow - 129 Total species - 115 Total individuals - 187,309 Count statistics: Count date: December 20, 2003 Time - 5:15 AM - 5:30 pm Temperature: 23 - 46 F AM Weather - Partly cloudy PM Weather - Mostly Sunny No precipitation Party Totals - 14 observers in 6 parties in AM 11 observers in 5 parties in PM Total Party Hours - 58.5 Hours by Car - 38 Hours on foot - 20.5 Total Part Miles - 401.5 Miles by Car - 390.5 Miles on Foot - 11 Owling - Total Hours Owling - 3 Total Miles Owling - 14.5 (13 by car, 1 on foot) Birders were: Jay Desgrosellier, Jerry Drewry, Bob Foehring, Mark Greene, Joe Guinn, Ken Leggett, Don Manning, Nancy Moore, John Noel, Joe Stone, Sabin Thompson, Mike Todd, Melinda Welton, and Jeff Wilson. Notes: Fourteen birders counted 115 species which was 1 below our all-time record of 116 which we tied last year. Highlights: Vermillion Flycatcher - still hanging around at the Airpark, a first for the Reelfoot CBC! Northern Waterthrush - 4th Reelfoot CBC record, the first since 1980. Common Yellowthroat - 3 were seen in 3 different locations! Other highlights included: Ross's Geese (3), Greater Scaup (22 total species of waterfowl), Common Loon (9, highest count ever for Reelfoot CBC), American White Pelican, Least Sandpiper, American Woodcock, Eurasian Collared-Dove, Short-eared Owl, Fish Crow, Sedge Wren, Marsh Wren, American Pipit, Orange-crowned Warbler (at 2 different locations), Pine Warbler (4 total species of warblers), American Tree Sparrow, Chipping Sparrow, Lincoln's Sparrow, Lapland Longspur, Western Meadowlark (a total of 4 birds were seen at 2 different locations), and Brewer's Blackbird. Species seen in very impressive numbers included 20,000+ Ring-billed Gulls (10,000+ seen in 3 different roosts on the lake and 10,000 seen near the prison farm) and 100,000 American Robins coming to a roost at dusk near Tiptonville. Misses were Northern Bobwhite, Red-breasted Nuthatch, LeConte's Sparrow (no habitat), Purple Finch, and Pine Siskin. Mark Greene Count Compiler 194 Mt. 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