The 3rd Dunnville (ONDU) CBC was held on Sunday December 30th 2018. The new Dunnville CBC circle was shifted and restarted in 2016 (it ran previously from 1998-2000). The information included below is based on the new circle only. The circle has a wide diversity of habitats including the Grand River, extensive marshes, and Rock Point Provincial Park.
It was a very successful count with a total of 17 observers who found 12416 individuals (avg = 11573), of 83 species (previous highs were 72 & 77). There were several expected additions to this newer count, as well as a few surprises, bringing our 3-year running species tally to 95. 14 NEW SPECIES: White-winged Scoter= 1 Hooded Merganser = 1 RED-NECKED GREBE = 1 Glaucous Gull = 1 Great-horned Owl = 5 Common Raven = 4 Hermit Thrush= 2 Chipping Sparrow = 4 Field Sparrow = 2 Purple Finch = 2 Common Redpoll = 4 Pine Siskin= 12 NASHVILLE WARBLER = 1 ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER = 1 39 NEW HIGH COUNTS (previous high): American Black Duck = 63 (41) Canvasback = 39 (15) Lesser Scaup = 25 (3) Horned Grebe = 7 (1) Great Blue Heron = 9 (7) TURKEY VULTURE = 190 (32) - Observed streaming out from nearby chicken farms in the NE corner of the circle. Northern Harrier = 29 (16) Cooper's Hawk = 9 (8) Red-tailed Hawk = 79 (70) Great Black-backed Gull = 12 (11) Rock Pigeon = 440 (253) Mourning Dove = 622 (390) Eastern Screech-Owl = 12 (5) Short-eared Owl = 4 (3) Red-bellied Woodpecker = 45 (31) Downy Woodpecker = 90 (77) Hairy Woodpecker = 27 (20) Northern Flicker = 16 (8) American Kestrel = 19 (9) Northern Shrike = 2 (1) Blue Jay = 164 (145) White-breasted Nuthatch = 67 (54) Brown Creeper = 12 (10) Carolina Wren = 12 (3) Winter Wren = 4 (2) Golden-crowned Kinglet = 52 (32) RUBY-CROWNED KINGLET = 7 (1) Eastern Bluebird = 73 (30) European Starling = 2836 (1601) White-throated Sparrow = 14 (6) Song Sparrow = 24 (17) Swamp Sparrow = 22 (2) Northern Cardinal = 151 (149) Red-winged Blackbird = 187 (94) Common Grackle = 95 (1) Brown-headed Cowbird = 1073 (430) House Finch = 66 (53) American Goldfinch = 207 (120) House Sparrow = 501 (494) 6 NEW LOW COUNTS (previous low): Bufflehead = 113 (225) Red-breasted Merganser = 112 (127) Wild Turkey = 86 (93) Bald Eagle = 7 (8) Black-capped Chickadee = 245 (260) American Tree Sparrow = 166 (289) The rest of the list: Canada Goose = 1711 Gadwall = 122 Mallard = 447 Northern Pintail = 1 Redhead = 19 Greater Scaup = 885 Common Goldeneye = 115 Long-tailed Duck = 2 Common Merganser = 193 Rough-legged Hawk = 6 Sandhill Crane = 27 Bonaparte's Gull = 30 Ring-billed Gull = 222 Herring Gull = 90 Snowy Owl = 1 Belted Kingfisher = 1 Merlin = 1 Peregrine Falcon = 1 American Crow = 49 Eastern Tufted Titmouse = 6 Red-breasted Nuthatch = 8 American Robin = 4 Cedar Waxwing = 1 Slate-colored Junco = 402 Some of the more notable misses (previous low): Sharp-shinned Hawk (2) Pileated Woodpecker (1) Horned Lark (110) Snow Bunting (1254) White-crowned Sparrow (4) Good birding, Matt Timpf & Janice Chard Compilers _______________________________________________ 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
