These are the results of the 32nd Woodhouse CBC held on Sunday December 16th 2018. The Woodhouse CBC is centred 7 km east of Simcoe, at the crossroads of Highway 3 and Cockshutt Road at Renton in Norfolk County and roughly covers from Port Dover to Waterford and just west of Simcoe to east of Jarvis. Above freezing temperatures with no precipitation made for a comfortable day to be outside, but the lack of snow cover and totally open water didn’t help concentrate the birds.
Total Species: 83 with no additional Count Week species (average for the last 30 years = 80, average for the last 10 years = 86) Total Individuals: 16,634 (average for the last 31 years = 25,827, average for the last 10 years = 24,038) # of participants: 37 New Species for the count: 0 Count Week Species: 1 Snow Goose occasionally in the park in Simcoe *RECORD HIGH (previous high)* Horned Grebe 14 (5) Brown Creeper 18 (14) Eastern Bluebird 93 (86) 2 Common Raven ties last years high of 2. A resident pair near Port Dover. *RECORD LOW: (previous low)* Great Black-backed Gull 1 (2) *NOTABLE ABSENTEES* Brown-headed Cowbird First time missed in 32 years Ruffed Grouse 9th year in a row Rusty Blackbird 1st miss since 2009 A variety of ducks considering all the open water *OTHER NOTABLE SIGHTINGS:* Common Loon 1 (8th record) Trumpeter Swan 1 (1st since 2010) Eastern Phoebe 1 (1st since 2007 and 4th record) Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 (1st since 2006) Evening Grosbeak 27 (highest count since 1997) *FULL SPECIES LIST AND TALLY* Common Loon 1 Horned Grebe 14 Great Blue Heron 2 Mute Swan 5 Trumpeter Swan 1 Tundra Swan 41 Canada Goose 7057 Cackling Goose 5 Mallard 799 American Black Duck 17 Gadwall 3 Redhead 657 Greater Scaup 315 Lesser Scaup 24 (scaup sp.) 21 Common Goldeneye 132 Bufflehead 152 Hooded Merganser 10 Common Merganser 44 Red-breasted Merganser 80 Bald Eagle 16 Northern Harrier 6 Sharp-shinned Hawk 3 Cooper's Hawk 2 Red-tailed Hawk 64 Rough-legged Hawk 3 American Kestrel 24 Merlin 2 Wild Turkey 78 Bonaparte's Gull 5 Ring-billed Gull 163 Herring Gull 71 Great Black-backed Gull 1 Rock Pigeon 879 Mourning Dove 481 Eastern Screech-Owl 4 Great-horned Owl 2 Belted Kingfisher 7 Red-bellied Woodpecker 40 Downy Woodpecker 82 Hairy Woodpecker 17 Yellow-shafted Flicker 11 Pileated Woodpecker 1 Eastern Phoebe 1 Northern Shrike 2 Blue Jay 240 American Crow 537 Common Raven 2 Horned Lark 3 Black-capped Chickadee 376 Eastern Tufted Titmouse 2 Red-breasted Nuthatch 19 White-breasted Nuthatch 98 Brown Creeper 18 Carolina Wren 12 Winter Wren 1 Golden-crowned Kinglet 31 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 2 Eastern Bluebird 93 Hermit Thrush 1 American Robin 32 Northern Mockingbird 3 European Starling 749 Cedar Waxwing 46 Myrtle Warbler 4 American Tree Sparrow 227 Chipping Sparrow 4 Field Sparrow 2 Song Sparrow 51 Swamp Sparrow 22 White-throated Sparrow 31 White-crowned Sparrow 5 Slate-colored Junco 950 Northern Cardinal 162 Red-winged Blackbird 2 Common Grackle 1 Purple Finch 2 House Finch 90 Common Redpoll 22 Pine Siskin 15 American Goldfinch 278 Evening Grosbeak 17 House Sparrow 734 Duck sp. 405 _______________________________________________ ONTBIRDS is presented by the Ontario Field Ornithologists (OFO) - the provincial birding organization. Send bird reports to birdalert@ontbirds.ca For information about ONTBIRDS including how to unsubscribe visit http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdssetup Posting guidelines can be found at http://www.ofo.ca/site/page/view/information.ontbirdsguide Visit the OFO Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/OntarioFieldOrnithologists
