Please speak up if you find any of these species in the 15 mile diameter count circle centered on Mount Pleasant (or more generally anywhere in the Ithaca / Tompkins County area) on January 2, 3, or 4, or if you found them on December 29, 30, or 31, or especially if you found them on January 1. All these species have been recorded on at least one previous Ithaca Christmas Bird Count but were not reported today. If someone actually did find any today they could be added to the Count itself. Species found within the 3 days before or after Count Day can also be added as Count Week birds. The number of individuals is not necessary for Count Week birds. Most of these species are very unlikely, but some are quite possible, and in particular a few (*) have been found recently and could still / again be here.
POTENTIAL COUNT WEEK SPECIES NOT YET FOUND, FROM PREVIOUS COUNTS Greater White-fronted Goose Mute Swan * Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal * Green-winged Teal (rumor needs details) * Ring-necked Duck Surf Scoter Red-breasted Merganser * Ring-necked Pheasant Northern Bobwhite Red-throated Loon * Horned Grebe Red-necked Grebe * Double-crested Cormorant Green Heron * Turkey Vulture Osprey Golden Eagle * Peregrine Falcon * Killdeer Wilson's Snipe Bonaparte's Gull * Iceland Gull Glaucous Gull Snowy Owl Long-eared Owl Short-eared Owl Northern Saw-whet Owl Red-headed Woodpecker American Three-toed Woodpecker Eastern Phoebe Northern Shrike Boreal Chickadee House Wren * Winter Wren Hermit Thrush Brown Thrasher American Pipit Bohemian Waxwing Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Pine Warbler Common Yellowthroat Green-tailed Towhee Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Fox Sparrow Harris's Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Lapland Longspur Dickcissel * Common Grackle (possible count week already, but I missed the details) Baltimore Oriole Pine Grosbeak Red Crossbill White-winged Crossbill Hoary Redpoll Evening Grosbeak These species already have been found for Count Week but not (so far as we know yet) on Count Day, 1 January 2010: NORTHERN PINTAIL - 1 on 30 Dec by Gary Kohlenberg at Hog Hole WHITE-WINGED SCOTER - 1 on 30 Dec by Gary Kohlenberg off East Shore Park BALD EAGLE - 1 on 30 Dec by Bill Baker off East Shore Park RED-WINGED BLACKBIRD - date? John Fitzpatrick, location? Also of very great interest are any species in addition to those below which were found on today's (1 Jan 2010) Ithaca Christmas Bird Count. Yes, this is what we found (from unofficial notes I scribbled during tonight's compilation): ITHACA CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT, 1 JANUARY 2010 Snow Goose - 20 Cackling Goose - 3 Canada Goose - 8,946 Tundra Swan - 24 Gadwall - 3 American Wigeon -1 American Black Duck - 43 Mallard - 951 Mallard X American Black Duck - 1 Canvasback - 10 Redhead - 260 Greater Scaup - 5 Lesser Scaup - 3 Scaup, sp - (lots flying past Myers, sorry I missed this number) Long-tailed Duck - 1 Bufflehead - 13 Common Goldeneye - 15 Hooded Merganser - 4 Common Merganser - 34 Ruddy Duck - 2 NORTHERN SHOVELER - 1 (new species for count) Ruffed Grouse - 17 Wild Turkey - 296 Common Loon - 3 Pied-billed Grebe - 5 Great Blue Heron - 4 Northern Harrier - 1 Sharp-shinned Hawk - 9 Cooper's Hawk - 10 Goshawk - 1 Red-shouldered Hawk - 1 Red-tailed Hawk - 121 Rough-legged Hawk - 7 American Kestrel - 2 Merlin - 1 American Coot - >>55 (plus a large number from Myers; Sorry, I missed this total) Ring-billed Gull - 241 Herring Gull - 700 Lesser Black-backed Gull - 1 Great Black-backed Gull - 93 Rock Pigeon - 988 Mourning Dove - 1128 Eastern Screech-Owl - 18 Great Horned Owl - 18 Barred Owl - 3 Belted Kingfisher - 3 Red-bellied Woodpecker - 182 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker - 1 Downy Woodpecker - 408 Hairy Woodpecker - 129 Northern Flicker - 24 Pileated Woodpecker - 36 (? sloppy notes, sorry) Blue Jay - 1,108 American Crow - 4,913 Fish Crow - 7 Common Raven - 8 Horned Lark - 28 Black-capped Chickadee - 3,336 Tufted Titmouse - 485 Red-breasted Nuthatch - 59 White-breasted Nuthatch - 502 Brown Creeper - 30 Carolina Wren - 35 Golden-crowned Kinglet - 33 Ruby-crowned Kinglet - 1 Eastern Bluebird - 125 American Robin - 63 Gray Catbird - 1 Northern Mockingbird - 9 European Starling - 3,552 Cedar Waxwing - 758 OVENBIRD - 1 (new species for count if it was included) American Tree Sparrow - 284 Song Sparrow - 38 SWAMP SPARROW - 21 (new high count) White-throated Sparrow - 100 Dark-eyed Junco - 572 Snow Bunting - 361 Northern Cardinal - 453 ROSE-BREASTED GROSBEAK - 1 (new species for count?) Rusty Blackbird - 1 Brown-headed Cowbird - 36 Purple Finch - 7 (I'm not certain of this number, sorry) House Finch - 457 Common Redpoll - 1 (I think this was counted) Pine Siskin - 3 (I think this was the total) American Goldfinch - 544 House Sparrow - 935 --Dave Nutter PS Please send me corrections or additional information. -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES Archives: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
