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Christmas Count Results 2011

Salmon River Christmas Bird Count – Dec. 18, 2011
Snow Goose Common Snipe 104 American Robin
344 Canada Goose 148 Ring-billed Gull 4 Gray Catbird
5 Mute Swan 16 Herring Gull 13 Northern Mockingbird
2 Common Loon Iceland Gull Brown Thrasher
Wood Duck Lesser Black-backed Gull 398 European Starling
4 Pied Bill Grebe Glaucous Gull 32 Cedar Waxwing
35 American Black Duck Great Black-backed Gull 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler
183 Mallard 261 Rock Pigeon Eastern Towhee
Northern Shoveler 99 Mourning Dove 21 American Tree Sparrow
28 Lesser Scaup 7 Eastern Screech-Owl 1 Field Sparrow
Green-winged Teal 2 Great Horned Owl 1 Vesper Sparrow
6 Ring-necked Duck 2 Barred Owl 1 Fox Sparrow
16 Common Goldeneye 5 Belted Kingfisher 68 Song Sparrow
31 Hooded Merganser 7 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 3 Swamp Sparrow
59 Common Merganser 49 Red-bellied Woodpecker 296 White-throated Sparrow
11 Bufflehead 76 Downy Woodpecker 10 Savanah sparrow
Rudy Duck 6 Hairy Woodpecker 575 Dark-eyed Junco
CW Ring-necked Pheasant 7 Northern Flicker Snow Bunting
Ruffed Grouse 5 Pileated Woodpecker 128 Northern Cardinal
28 Wild Turkey Eastern Phoebe 7 Red-winged Blackbird
Double-crested Cormorant Northern Shrike Rusty Blackbird
Great Cormorant 159 Blue Jay 2 Common Grackle
6 Great Blue Heron 292 American Crow 25 Brown-headed Cowbird
4 Turkey Vulture 1 Fish Crow Purple Finch
1 Northern Harrier 4 Common Raven 135 House Finch
Northern Goshawk Horned Lark 2 Pine Siskin
1 Sharp-shinned Hawk 269 Black-capped Chickadee Common Redpoll
1 Cooper’s Hawk 359 Tufted Titmouse 136 American Goldfinch
15 Red-shouldered Hawk   Red-breasted Nuthatch Evening Grosbeak
26 Red-tailed Hawk 138 White-breasted Nuthatch 354 House Sparrow
Rough-legged Hawk Brown Creeper 2 N. Saw Whet Owl
10 Bald Eagle 23 Carolina Wren 3 Chipping Sparrow
American Kestrel Winter Wren Total # Species71 + 1 CW
Merlin Ruby-cowned Kinglet Total # Birds Counted5195
Peregrine Falcon 2 Golden-crowned Kinglet
American Coot 114 Eastern Bluebird Participants = 38
Killdeer 4 Hermit Thrush Feeders = 2
Wind: 2–10 mph
14°–30° F Total Owling hrs = 8.3 Total Parties = 10
Clear, Sunny Total Owling Parties = 6 Total hrs incl. owls = 56.5
Rivers: Open Total Owl Miles = 105 mls Total Mls Foot = 24.5
Still water:  P frozen Total Mls Car = 320